Fitness Quote by Maureen Lang

“Nastiness devalues the speaker as well because the unwillingness to restrain the urge marks the speaker as less civilized, more animal-like.”

— Stephen L. Carter

“...I think that we succumb to attitudes that do not permit us to dialogue: domination, not knowing how to listen, annoyance in our speech,…

— Jorge Mario Bergoglio

“I do not have any problem if you show disrespect towards me, but you are creating impediments towards your own Self. When you say…

— Dada Bhagwan

“You don't understand. Speaking, talking--language, that is--represents the most orderly, civilized, and rational expression of human nature. All this foul-mouthed cussing is a gap…

— Graham Joyce

“Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this…

— George Eliot

“But even in Curzon Street society, if you say, for instance, that you are a tough guy they will consider you a vulgar, irritating…

— George Mikes

“People offend you, irritate you, breathe contempt and malice against you; do not repay them in the same way, but be gentle, meek, and…

— St. John of Kronstadt

“You are not obliged to assault people with discourses that are out of their road, when you see that their received notions must prevent…

— Thomas More

“And it's not my fault that I have a penchant for good breeding, reasonable intelligence, and passable personal hygiene, not necessarily in that order.”

— Kami Garcia

“When we insult others, it says nothing about them but it shows how vulgar we are.”

— Leonard Seet

“Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or…

— Anonymous