Top 100 To Be Nice Quotes
#1. Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut.
Jim Rohn
#2. Dorothea sniffed and looked around the room, her distaste clear. "Try to be polite, Mother," Marjorie said. "I am always polite." "Then try to be nice.
Jane Goodger
#3. It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#4. Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.
Mario Testino
#5. I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
Michel Gondry
#6. I've been fortunate enough to match up the material I'm producing with the right buyer, the company that will make it and that wants it, and that isn't saying yes to be nice, but is saying yes because they want and need that movie and it's going to be important on their slate.
Nina Jacobson
#7. People who try to be nice are false. They're liars. You should never force your behavior to be a certain way. You should just be. Maybe it's not going to be nice, but at least it'll be honest.
Veronica Rossi
#8. I will listen to a beautiful person much more quickly than a plain person, and I have to learn to be nice to people who are not attractive looking.
Beatrice Wood
#9. It doesn't kill you to be nice, kind, loving, caring and respectful. Try it!
Lily Amis
#10. I should have tried getting blown up months ago if that's what it takes to get you to be nice to me.
Katie Reus
#11. Like so many nice people who seek power, I wanted to force everyone else to be nice. It's called totalitarianism.
Maajid Nawaz
#12. It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
John Templeton
#13. Donald Trump just pledged to be loyal to the Green Party, the Communist Party and Party Central, as long as they agree to be nice to that thing on his head. If not, all bets are off.
Michael R. Burch
#14. As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
Zaha Hadid
#15. I have adopted you so gloves are off. You now matter to me, so I don't have to be nice." "Wait.
Alanea Alder
#16. If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.
Luke Bryan
#17. Usually, I would pretend to be nice, but this morning I feel real, like myself. I feel high, almost like I'm tripping, and I couldn't fake nice if I tried.
Paula Hawkins
#18. If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.
Oliver Sacks
#20. From the beginning, I got all Emirates cabin crew applicants psychometrically tested. Those who didn't want to be nice to others got rejected.
Maurice Flanagan
#21. Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
Barbara Deming
#22. It's always really cool when you get to play with someone who you like and they go out of their way to be nice to you; it's not just a 'oh I played with them but I didn't meet them' sort of situation, so shout out to those guys for being awesome.
Hoodie Allen
#23. Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.
Earl Nightingale
#24. Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.
Katherine Dunn
#25. As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers. They were paid to be nice to us, to look after us, teach us things and take time out of their day to be with us. As a child you think of these people as an extension of your mother.
Kathryn Stockett
#26. I thought it must have been scary to be an Apatosaurus because he just wanted to be nice but there was probably a lot of pressure to be mean because he was a dinosaur.
Jesse Eisenberg
#27. Listen up, if someone is being nice to you, and you don't know them, run away. No one is nice to you just to be nice to you, and if they are, well, they can go take their pleasant ass somewhere else.
Justin Halpern
#28. I don't want to be nice. Nice girls can only get what they're offered.
Azealia Banks
#29. I'm serious, Mar, I don't know how to act around him now. I can't be nice, because he'll hate that. But I can't be mean just to be nice."
"You really need medication."
"I'm in a quandary. A Catch-22. I'm screwed.
Kristin Walker
#30. I am called to love my neighbor, which I do. I can disagree with my neighbor about several things, but I'm not going to hate my neighbor. It's not up to me to hate anybody. It's not up to me to judge anyone. It's up to me to be nice, to be kind and to do everything I can to help somebody.
Larry The Cable Guy
#31. I want to tell him that what he did was nice, but nice is such a silly word for kindness. Anyone could pretend to be nice. What Silas did was innate. Boldfaced kindness.
Colleen Hoover
#32. It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.
Mark Cuban
#33. I do not stay to be nice. I stay because it is my duty - " "But, Mama can't find out, Muddy," Addy cautioned, interrupting him. "She'd have a heart attack." " - and because Adara has promised me hot monkey sex," Brand finished.
Lexi George
#34. I'm trying to learn how to listen to people and how not to think that this is all I am. It's not going to change the fact that at home I'm going to put away the clean dishes, and I'm going to have to be nice to my siblings. It encourages me, but it doesn't define me.
Bethany Dillon
#35. To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance
not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.
Richard Hugo
#36. The time was 7:40 A.M. I reached for the phone. "Do you have your axe?" came the voice on the other end. It was Mad Dog. "Yes." "Is your axe sharp?" "No, but I can sharpen it while you're driving here." "How about your knife?" "Got it." "Everything needs to be nice and sharp.
Neil Strauss
#37. Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?
... No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.
Janette Rallison
#38. I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.
Whitney Cummings
#39. Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
Venus Williams
#40. An asshole who sometimes pretends to be nice totally has the ability to suck you back in, making you think that you had him all wrong.
Lauren Barnholdt
#41. Having to be nice to people, which, as everyone knows, is the toughest job in the world
Marian Keyes
#42. My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#43. Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty.
Daniel Kahneman
#44. U.K. guys think it is cheesy to be nice.
Mollie King
#45. Don't call a girl a flirt, she's just trying to be nice. Don't call a girl obsessed when she's just in love.
Zayn Malik
#47. I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.
Wolfgang Puck
#48. I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that's okay. I appreciate the elliptical nature of it. Sometimes people are more in the mood to be nice to me than others, and that's great.
Claire Danes
#49. You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have to agree with them. But they do have to be compulsively watchable and believable and human, and you want to know what happens to them.
Michael Hirst
#50. 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
#51. I wasn't going to tell her what she smelled like because it was sweet and lovely and I had no desire to be nice at the moment.
Jay Crownover
#52. You just try to be nice to everybody and treat them all the same. Treat them how you would want to be treated.
Tim Tebow
#53. My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, 'I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.'
Jason Segel
#54. All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron)
Why? (Talon)
Well, it obviously isn't to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#55. There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.
Tim Jackson
#56. You want to break the curse, I want to break the curse. We don't need to be nice. We need to be effective. Just help me figure it out, and I'll make you a rich woman.
Kate Avery Ellison
#57. We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.
Maurice Sendak
#58. I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone,
Neil Gaiman
#59. I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.
Mindy Kaling
#60. Why don't you like to be gentle? Did you never have a pet to learn how to be nice? I can teach you to be gentle. It's not hard.
Pepper Winters
#61. I've lived every day to the fullest, and I've had a marvelous time. I've tried to be nice to the people I care about, and ignore the ones I don't. I enjoy what I've done.
Oscar De La Renta
#62. When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.
Roberto Benigni
#63. People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people!
Stuart Wilde
#64. The best opportunities to be nice to others come in the face of adversity. Kindness wins. Reciprocity rules.
David Chiles
#65. On Talking to Strangers "Listen up, if someone is being nice to you, and you don't know them, run away. No one is nice to you just to be nice to you, and if they are, well, they can go take their pleasant ass somewhere else." On
Justin Halpern
#66. I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I've learned that all this stuff we do is a bunch of crap. That doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?
Tom Ford
#67. We are like guests on this Earth, either we get to be nice or we get to be bad
Catherine Anderson
#68. I would like to point out that as soon as Lieutenant Ekalu let you know that actually, your intended compliment was offensive to her, you immediately stopped trying to be nice.
Ann Leckie
#69. I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.
Vincent Cassel
#70. Related: Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
Anonymous
#71. You can't keep acting like this," Lillian says, and for the first time in months, it's like she's actually trying to be nice. "Tragedy isn't this evil thing that came from outer space. It's just there, you know. Along with everything else.
Brenna Yovanoff
#72. Still, he's being nice to me, so I decide to be nice to his ass and allow myself to notice how hot it looks in his jeans.
Leisa Rayven
#73. Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?
Orson Scott Card
#74. You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.
Jackie Chan
#75. It's such a joy to be able to play someone who is angry. It's a joy and a relief. Having to be nice all the time is exhausting and boring.
Sandra Bullock
#76. I receive Income from you, can you point one reason why not to be nice with ya?
Deyth Banger
#77. It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.
Dwayne Johnson
#78. Oh God they got you gun shy You know your skin's as cold as ice Your eyes are double filtered babe You're so afraid to be nice There's no way you're ready To let your defenses down Though I won't come on heavy There is a lesson that I've found.
Harry Chapin
#80. I am slightly offended by the way busy working women my age are presented in film. I'm not, like, always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and telling people constantly, "I have no time for this!" I didn't completely forget how to be nice and feminine because I have a career.
Mindy Kaling
#81. I don't get paid to be nice. I get paid to be right.
R.L. Griffin
#82. I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.
Neil Gaiman
#83. I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.
Helena Bonham Carter
#84. She approached me with enough sex appeal to stampede a businessmen's lunch and tilted her head to finger a stray, but not very stray, tendril of softly glowing hair. Her smile was tentative, but could be persuaded to be nice.
Raymond Chandler
#85. If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.
Haruki Murakami
#86. It's no harder to be nice than it is to be creepy. And it's much more fun.
Neil Gaiman
#87. You have to be nice to everybody, and then people want you to succeed.
Elle King
#88. In other words, if you're not motivated to be nice because of the good karma, be motivated to be nice because ultimately it saves time
Jocelyn K. Glei
#89. It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice.
Someone
#90. I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.
George Lucas
#91. Every day there are many opportunities to be nice
or not so nice.
Rex Lee
#92. To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!
Homer
#93. People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
Vincent Cassel
#94. I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.
Graham Norton
#95. I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so many years of summer camp and growing up in DC with Rock Creek Park fairly near me, or Glover Park; I lived in Glover Park for a while and that park was in my backyard.
Henry Rollins
#96. As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.
Mike White
#97. Ethan had told the world, the world sympathized, and Sarah Lemon was now and forever (because wasn't cyberspace instantly forever?) someone you had to be 'nice' to, a pathetic girl who just didn't get it, the scourge of her generation, the lowest rung on the ladder, a loser.
Mitch Albom
#98. she was trying to be "nice" Tatum. Not vengeful, angry, spiteful Tatum. Not punch-a-mother-fucker-in-the-head Tatum.
Stylo Fantome
#99. Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience.
Larry Moss
#100. You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.
Anne Roiphe
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