Done Being The Nice Person Quotes

#1. I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.

Miranda Kerr

#2. Having someone saying you're okay as you are and being needed by that person... It was nice to have someone like that...

Yuyuko Takemiya

#3. Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

Miles Davis

#4. It was a damned good thing men couldn't have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the
human race would have died out generations earlier.

Julia Quinn

#5. It's nice to be able to control my smell environment, and I can hear myself think better when it's quiet. It wasn't easy to become a person who's OK being alone on a Saturday night, but I did the work, I got there...

Jonathan Franzen

#6. She took care of evyone with the same no-nonsense air of friendliness and good cheer that made her seem so paradoxically wholesome, as if she were convinced that being a slut and being a really nice person were just two things that naturally went together.

Tom Perrotta

#7. It's not easy being Hugh Jackman, but he wears the attention better than anyone I've ever met. He treats every person he meets the same and finds joy in everything he does. The lesson I've learned is that if you work incredibly hard, and you're nice to everybody, you'll be fine.

Laura Donnelly

#8. It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy

Edward Gibbon

#9. Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being, craving power, destroying anything that stands in their way.

Frederick Lenz

#10. I really like the idea of being a bit unpredictable. I'm known for being a nice, easy-going person with a straightforward exterior. So I think a bit of me wants to be sort of sly and devious.

Mark Haddon

#11. I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.

Emma Watson

#12. One of the nice things about being me is you show up in a town, you meet somebody interesting and entertaining, and for 48 hours, what a wonderful person to be around. You mess around, and all of that is super, super fun, and you don't have to deal with the long-term consequences of it.

Guy Branum

#13. I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

Eric Idle

#14. I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

Roseanne Barr

#15. Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

Fay Weldon

#16. I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

Richard Simmons

#17. Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what everyone else is doing. But they make the world a better place, Sugar Honey, you can trust me on that.

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#18. I don't feel that I'm using technology. I don't feel that I'm wearing technology. I feel that I am technology.

Neil Harbisson

#19. I visited the Museum of Modern Art and viewed the exhibition of Picasso's sculptures, and I couldn't help but think about what it would be like to have a room full of school children explore Picasso's approach to making art.

Jerry Pinkney

#20. Sometimes being a nice person is all about knowing when to be an asshole.

John Cheese

#21. It's nice being around someone without always having to think about who you're supposed to be and what you're supposed to do and think and say. It's nice to just concentrate on being the person you are - whoever you are.

Brenna Yovanoff

#22. It's always nice being fancied. It's always nice being wanted. Even it it's by the wrong person.

Tabitha Suzuma

#23. Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

Eleanor Catton

#24. What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

Bill McKibben

#25. Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

Ben Carson

#26. No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.

Lillie Langtry

#27. It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

Tabitha Suzuma

#28. No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor's country.

Joe Biden

#29. If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.

Gloria Steinem

#30. All know the way, but few actually walk it.

Bodhidharma

#31. Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

Simon Sinek

#32. The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.

Eliza Doolittle