83 Quotes About Graciousness

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.

The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.

Be patient when you have nothing, be polite when you have everything.

People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.