What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you...

I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

for his courtesy and convenience, and that is because he is a former Cabinet official.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy

[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive...

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon — the pardon is...

Talk to strangers politely… Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.

If the governor neglected, as a courtesy, to call the mayor, he is sorry.

…when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate – with quite elaborate...

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect.

It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!

There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.

Sex is not merely an entertainment; it is a courtesy and affability.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

It was a courtesy visit. He is a very pleasant and intelligent man.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

All doors open to courtesy

It is not grey hair that makes one respectable but character.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice

With your lunch box, do not forget to carry courtesy, respect, and gratitude from home!

Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy!

You know, the thing about manners is that we only seem to notice the lack of them in others. It’s a lot harder to see mistakes in ourselves.

They saw we had an opening. I made the phone call out of courtesy, assuming they would want us to go out there and play. They said they’d like to come to Madison as part...

Your kindness shall be rewarded; come to this place after thirteen moons, and you will find something that will be of great benefit in nourishing you and your children to the latest generations.” They did...

Not only the footwear, wear also the courtesy, respect, and gratitude in your heart while stepping out of home.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman’s heart.

…a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not...

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Things we carry from home shows where we hail from ~ courtesy, respect, and gratitude

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.

Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home.

Your name?” George asked him directly. He had probably seen the man a dozen times before yet did not know anything about him. King Davit would have no doubt have known half the man’s history...

Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, “Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.

As a courtesy, we will let people display their (antique) bikes. There will be a wide variety of stuff for sale and on display ? all makes.

I feel so safe tonight with all of this police protection courtesy of G-Unit,

get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility...

Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees,...

The sun, rising and setting in splendid colors, never grows tired of its admirers―much like a lady, aglow with grace, never grows tired of chivalrous acts or pretty flowers.

Thanks for all the police protection — courtesy of G-Unit.

Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole.Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead.Allow both passion...

Gratitude comes in a spectrum of colors, but Ingratitude is always black.

Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person...

Courtesy and kindness cultivate confidence with good Netiquette. Doing things right makes you feel good.