83 Quotes About Graciousness

Be courteous to see your mistakes, courageous to accept them, and clever enough to correct them.

Can we disagree graciouslyI am tired of peoplenot knowing the volumeof their power.

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives.

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, "I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory.

We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.