Quotes on Courtesy

The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.

To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

The greater man the greater courtesy.

The first point of courtesy must always be truth.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.