Quotes about Courtesy
Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
— Letitia Baldrige
People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.
— Barack Obama
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
— St. Basil
I think the simplest advice I could give would be to wait until asked before giving advice.
— Deborah Raney
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.
— Ted Dekker
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
— Samuel Johnson
Treat people how you want to be treated.
— Donald Trump
Frankness is not a license to say anything you want, wherever and whenever you want. It is not rudeness.
— Rick Warren
Little children, such as Anne, must never, ever correct their elders, no matter how many blunders they make or how often they let their imaginations run away with them.
— Anne Frank
Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.
— Paulo Coelho
You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.
— Zig Ziglar