Looking for inspirational quotes about mean people? We have rounded up the best collection of mean people quotes, sayings, captions, (with images and pictures) that will help you to deal with spiteful and vindictive people.
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We come across people in life who talk in attitude, arrogance and are very mean in their behavior. Showing disrespect to others and insulting them is a weakness of one’s character. Mean words can cause great damage to people’s minds and feelings.
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Dealing with mean and nasty people can be a tricky affair. When confronted with mean behavior from a family member, stranger, a grumpy coworker or a friend, you should try and not take their behavior personally.
Try to avoid them and reciprocate them with love, kindness, good manners, and politeness. This is the best way to deal with people who are mean and have a toxic mindset.
And when nothing else works drop them from your lives and free yourself from all negativity and hurtful behavior.
We have divided these motivational quotes in these sections;
- Mean People Quotes.
- Quotes About People Being Mean
- Quotes About Mean Friends
If you like these quotes, then also find some relatable content with sad being ignored quotes and silent treatment quotes.
Mean People Quotes
- “Mean people are no fun.” – Thom Filicia
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“Mean people are meaningless.” – Alice Hoffman
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“Be kind to unkind people; they need it the most!” – Buddhism
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“Rudeness is the weak person’s imitation of strength.” – Unknown
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“Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.” – Pope Francis
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“One does evil enough when one does nothing good.” – German Proverb
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“World is so mean, people love you only according to their needs.” – Unknown
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“People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.” – Moliere
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“Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.” – Unknown
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“Mean people don’t bother me. Mean people who pretend to be nice do.” – Unknown
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“Mean people are always around to teach us the meaning of life!!” – Bharath Jackson
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“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.” – Unknown
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“The meanest people are the ones who don’t realize just how mean they are.” – Unknown
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“Sometimes people are mean because they feel insecure about themselves.” – E. Lockhart
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“Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.” – Walter Bagehot
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“If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.” – Kurt Cobain
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“Your success, your life, your happiness. Don’t let mean people bring that down.” – Taylor Swift
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“Only people who are not happy with themselves are mean to others. Remember that.” – Unknown
quotes about mean friends
“It’s very strange that the people you love are often the people you’re most cruel to.” – Kenneth Branagh
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“People who are mean or unkind or rigid – think about it – cannot laugh at themselves.” – Eileen Brennan
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“You may be pretty; and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you’re mean.” – Unknown
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“People can be mean. Don’t take it personally. It says nothing about you but a lot about them.” – Unknown
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“Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head… Raise the rent and kick them out..” – Robert Tew
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“Those who spend their time looking for the faults in others usually make no time to correct their own.” – Art Jonak
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“I feel pity on these pity people’s on how they pity this pity things! Fake world; cruel people.” – Chandana Sahukar
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“Spiteful people suffer from the worse kind of hurt, learning, toxic thinking, behavior, and low self-esteem.” – Ty Howard
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“The way people treat you, is a statement about who they are as human being. It is not a statement about you.” – Unknown
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“The less you respond to rude, critical, argumentative people… The more peaceful your life will become.” – Mandy Hale
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“Ignoring people doesn’t mean I’m mad at them. It’s just that they are not important and not worth of my time.” – Kate
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“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” – Albert Einstein
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“Mean people don’t bother me a bit. Mean people who disguise themselves as nice people bother me a whole lot.” – Unknown
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“People will always tell you what you do wrong, but they are hesitant to compliment you for the many things you do.” – Lara A.R.
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“Always ignore hateful attitude and rude behavior of the people. They are powerless without your response.” – Bushra Zarrar Rana
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“People are only mean when they’re threatened, and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does.” – Mitch Albom
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“Some people can be mean and treat you poorly. Don’t take it personally. It says nothing about you but a lot about them.” – Unknown
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“Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.” – Unknown
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“Respect yourself enough to say “I deserve peace,” and walk away from people or tings that prevent you from attaining it.” – Jerico Silvers
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“Being nice to those who treat you badly isn’t being fake. Your spiritual maturity has risen above the desire for vengeance.” – Michael Binot
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“It’s a lot easier to be mean than to be nice. So mean people, on top of being jerks, are also lazy and uninventive.” – Casey Neistat
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“Never retaliate when people say unkind things about you. Pay them back with a blessing… and God will bless you!” – 1 Peter 3:9 (Bible Verse)
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“Ignore negative people. They feed on your reaction and if they see you being affected by hat they do/say, they’ll keep doing it.” – Unknown
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“I will continue to treat people with kindness even when they try to trample over me emotionally. I’ll be triumphant in the end.” – Unknown
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“No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all. Integrity is everything.” – Unknown
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“I will continue to treat people with kindness even when they try to trample over me emotionally. I’ll be triumphant in the end.” – Unknown
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“Cutting people out of your life doesn’t mean you hate them, it simply means you respect yourself. Not everyone is meant to stay.” – Unknown
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“You don’t need to take revenge. Just sit back and wait because karma will get hold of those that hurt you and if you are lucky, God will let you watch.” – Unknown
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“Ungrateful people complain about the one thing you haven’t done for them instead of being thankful for the thousands of things you have done for them.” – Unknown
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“There are some people who always seem angry and continuously look for conflict. Walk away; the battle they are fighting isn’t with you, it is with themselves.” – Unknown
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“If someone treats you badly, just remember that there is something wrong with them, not you. Normal people don’t go around destroying other human beings.” – Unknown
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“In my experience, meanness has been a symptom, not a state of being. I’ve met very few truly mean people, and those I have met I have met have also been rather miserable people.” – Tom Walsh
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“When someone is mean, don’t listen. When someone is rude, walk away. When someone tries to put you down, stay firm. Don’t let someone’s bad behavior destroy your inner peace.” – Unknown
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“People try to say suicide is the most cowardly act a man could ever commit. I don’t think that’s true at all. What’s cowardly is treating a man so badly that he wants to commit suicide.” – Unknown
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“Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.” – Bryant McGill
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“You have to recognize that some people, whether they know it or not, are just mean spirited. If someone delivers messages to you in a harsh and negative way all the time, it’s time for you to evaluate why you allow them to speak into your life. Release negative people because that energy is unhealthy. They can keep that.” – Rorree Tillman
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“I wish all the mean people, if you want to be mean to each other, just buy a country together and blow each other up. Then we’d have no terrorists left. Like, don’t kill innocent people for no reason. It’s not fair. We love everybody. We’d even like them if they said they’re sorry. It’s not fair that innocent people are getting hurt. It makes me sad.” – Tara Reid
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“Because that’s the thing about mean people. They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.” – David Levithan
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“Treat them with the contempt that they deserve. Being confrontational and responding to the abuse is not conducive to a peaceful, stress-free life. Be conveniently deaf, blind and dumb. It is so much more effective when yours is not the expected reaction.” – Margaret Young
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“In life you’ll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it’s because they’re stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance. Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.” – Marjane Satrapi
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“In life you will meet a lot of mean and disrespectful people. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it’s because they’ve got issues and you’re on a different level than they are. That will keep you from reacting to their insensitivity. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance. Walk away, keep your dignity and always be true to yourself.” – Unknown
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“It bugs me when people are unnecessarily mean. Like, you didn’t have to make that comment. You could have just kept your mouth shut and left that person not feeling bad about themselves. What do you gain from making someone feel bad? Nothing of substance. Maybe a fleeting moment of power but that’s gone as soon as it comes so why? There’s enough unhappiness in the world without you adding to it.” – Unknown
Quotes About People Being Mean
Most of the time mean people bully others to deal with their insecurities. Distancing yourself with such people is all you need to do, to get the control over your life.
The best way is to enlighten them with your kindness, and positive attitude to make them realize their mistakes.
- “A pretty face is nothing if you have an ugly heart.” – Unknown
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“Rudeness degrades primarily those who are rude.” – Urban Sayings
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“I used to be a people person… but people ruined that for me.” – Unknown
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“People push you to your limits, but when you finally explode and fight back, you are the mean one.” – Unknown
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“One of the reasons that being mean to mean people isn’t terribly effective is that people learn most through personal experience or by observation of others. Giving someone a taste of their own medicine is very unlikely to teach them anything new or show them that there’s a better way. By being mean to a mean person, you’re simply showing them a behavior they’re already familiar with. All your negative actions do is demonstrate that you can stoop to their level. And now instead of just one person acting badly, there are two. And rather than solve the problem, it makes things worse.” – Unknown
Quotes About Mean Friends
In this fast-moving world, it’s difficult to come across true and honest friends. We often bump into fake people and friends who pose to be our close ones, but should not be trusted.
These people always think first about themselves and are greedy by nature. It’s heartbreaking to come across mean friends who can betray you anytime, so always take time to trust people.
- “Words mean nothing when your actions contradict.” – Unknown
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“If all they do is bring you down, then it’s time to let them go.” – Unknown
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“In life we never lose friends, we only learn who the true ones are.” – Unknown
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“Fake friends: Once they stop talking to you, they start talking about you.” – Unknown
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“Growing up means realizing a lot of your friends aren’t really your friends.” – Unknown
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Unknown
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“I don’t hate you, I’m just disappointed you turned into everything you said you’d never be.” – Unknown
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“Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back.” – Unknown
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“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means.” – Charles Kingsley
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“Lessons Learned: Everybody isn’t your friend. Just because they hand around you and laugh with you doesn’t mean they are your friend. People pretend well. At the end of the day, real situations expose fake people, so pay attention.” – Unknown
Meanness isn’t rare. Mean people do not care how you feel as long as they get to say what they want, sometimes, they will even do things on purpose just to see you suffer.
They are self-centered and often get agitated too soon and disrespect others. Dealing with such people can be never easy so you should find ways to get away from the toxicity that clouds your life.
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