"Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short."
Read quote
19 likes
Mean quotes
Mean
28K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Mean
Browse quotes that often appear alongside mean — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Mean quotes (page 59 of 1399)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty."
Read quote
19 likes
"You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left."
Read quote
19 likes
"After you have a big game, you can't just say, 'That's it, I've arrived,' by any means. I'm always pushing it to be better. You always want to be better than you are, no matter what. I think that's important."
Read quote
19 likes
"Falling into Place: deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly."
Read quote
19 likes
"The attitude, 'You can win if you want to badly enough,' means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too 'tough' to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner's ideals and dreams."
Read quote
19 likes
"If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses"
Read quote
19 likes
"Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie."
Read quote
19 likes
"Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end."
Read quote
19 likes
"God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards."
Read quote
19 likes
"The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress."
Read quote
19 likes
"I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others."
Read quote
19 likes
"A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go."
Read quote
19 likes
"I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent."
Read quote
19 likes
"Do we mean love, when we say love?"
Read quote
19 likes
"You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it."
Read quote
19 likes
"God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on."
Read quote
19 likes
"A good decision is our will to do everything we can within our power. It means to serve God with all we've got, be it little or much. Every person can do that."
Read quote
19 likes
"Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having."
Read quote
19 likes
"Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person."
Read quote
19 likes