Meaning Well Quotes:

In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same. Anything in excess of needs is burdensome to me. You couldn't give me anything I don't need. I am penniless, but have difficulty remaining so. Several of my well meaning, well-to-do friends have offered me large sums of money, which I of course refused.

- Peace Pilgrim

topic: Giving, Needs, Meaning Well

In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery. They are those fellows who got mixed up with Catsmeat when he was meaning well.

- P. G. Wodehouse

source: P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

topic: Powerful, Meaning Well, Looks, Haggard

All is well that ends well

- Emily Rodda

source: Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Ends, Wells, Spanish Proverb, Meaning Well, Merchant Of Venice

All's well that ends well.

- John Heywood

source: John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

topic: Wisdom, Finishing, Ends, Life Wisdom, Spanish Proverb

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

- Samuel Gridley Howe

topic: Thinking, Important, Half, Meaning Well, Abolitionist

Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work of Architecture were: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas; or firmness, utility, and delight. Firmness meaning well built, solid and resistant; utility meaning useful and functional, and delight meaning beautiful.

- Santiago Calatrava

source: Source: www.archdaily.com

topic: Beautiful, Essentials, Three, Meaning Well

Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians have a special duty to experience its sacred and profound spiritual significance and non-Christians have a duty to treat the day with special respect.

- Michael Josephson

topic: Christmas, Christian, Spiritual, Jesus Birth, Meaning Well

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea

- Dennis Prager

topic: Ideas, Conservative, Wells, Meaning Well

We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

- Rachel Cohn

source: Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Reading, Believe, Want, You Want Me, Meaning Well