Quotes about Courtesy
Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.
- Rick Warren
Courtesy is respecting our differences, being considerate of each other's feelings, and being patient with people who irritate us.
- Rick Warren
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.
- St. Basil
Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.
- Joseph Wirthlin
You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'
- Madeleine Albright
Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Things can go away just like that. You got to be always respectful and nice and positive.
- Rich Brian
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
You can tell a lot about a man by watching how he treats those he doesn't have to be nice to.
- Richard Paul Evans
Men are respectable only as they respect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Respect is intended to operate on a two-way street.
- James Dobson
If you really want a true confrontation, you treat your opponent with respect.
- Henry Rollins