Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable.… — Kent McCord Copy Share Image
ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Pray do not take us as exceeding the bounds of business courtesy in pressing you in all ways to use the utmost… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say… — Anthony Geary Copy Share Image
When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Never call your broker on Monday. Out of courtesy and common sense, wait until Tuesday. A good broker is focused on the… — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends. — James Thomas Fields Copy Share Image
The movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Through courtesy you will take a humble attitude toward your opponent in training & be grateful to him. — Shigeru Egami Copy Share Image
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy. — Homer Copy Share Image
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If you treat with courtesy your equal, who is privileged to resent an impertinence, how much more cautious should you be to… — Robert Chambers Copy Share Image
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and… — Michael E. DeBakey Copy Share Image
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“Courtesy,” said Lieutenant Dariet, her voice uncharacteristically prim, “is always proper, and always beneficial” — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects. — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Loving your child also means respecting him as a person. Treat him with the same courtesy as would a friend. — Claudia Jones Copy Share Image
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I am courteous enough to assume that everyone in this so aesthetically voluptuous age, so potent and aroused that conception occurs as… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
