Top 32 Quotes On Kindness And Courtesy
#1. The conduct of some professed Christians is so lacking in kindness and courtesy that their good is evil spoken of.
Ellen G. White
#2. "In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
Brian Tracy
#3. Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#4. They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.
Saint Basil
#5. Patience. Kindness. Generosity. Humility. Courtesy. Unselfishness. Good temper. Guilelessness. Sincerity.
Paulo Coelho
#6. I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.
Louise Penny
#7. Once he got there, he stopped and looked back. You know, the thing about manners is that we only seem to notice the lack of them in others. It's a lot harder to see mistakes in ourselves.
Rose Wynters
#8. Kindness is strength, courtesy is power.
T.A. Uner
#9. There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home.
Frederick William Robertson
#10. What to one person is common courtesy is to another tender words of life - and by the same token, what one person intends to show as great affection may be to his beloved an irrelevant show of frivolousness compared to the kindness of simply doing the laundry sometimes.
Anna Broadway
#11. In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you.
David Mamet
#12. The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#13. What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.
Steve Goodier
#14. If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.
Piero Ferrucci
#16. Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#17. Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.
James Thomas Fields
#18. Recently returned from Boston, where she was staying with her Aunt, to broaden her education. She has turned out a charming young woman, everything one might wish for, and displayed a courtesy and gentle kindness many would admire, and which is worth so much
Margaret Atwood
#19. Courtesy and kindness cultivate confidence with good Netiquette. Doing things right makes you feel good.
David Chiles
#20. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Basil The Great
#21. Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!
William Shakespeare
#22. I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.
Kenneth Clark
#23. Everyone was in a hurry. Everyone was out for themselves. No one gave a shit about anyone else. Long ago, kindness, courtesy, and civility had taken a hike.
Kristen Ashley
#25. One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
Cullen Hightower
#26. He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
Saint Basil
#27. Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.
Edwin Muir
#28. Your relationship with yourself is the most important one you will ever have because you are the only person with whom you will spend every moment of your life. Treat yourself with kindness, courtesy, and respect. Cherish who you are!
Karlyle Tomms
#29. A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
Philip Sidney
#30. We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.
Jeremy Bentham
#31. I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
Herman Melville
#32. I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
William Penn