Courtesy Quotes - Page 17

• Loving your child also means respecting him as a person. Treat him with the same courtesy as would a friend.

  Claudia Jones

  Children, Mean, Loving You

  Claudia Jones (1988). “Parents are Teachers, Too: Enriching Your Child's First Six Years”, Williamson Pub

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• On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

  Confucius

  Moving, Hands, Law

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• Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Compassion, Belief

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• To put off the inevitable, we try to fix the city in place, remember it as it was, doing to the city what we would never allow to be done to ourselves. . . . New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy.

  Colson Whitehead

  New York, Self, Cities

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• I'm a firm believer that we all meet up in eternity
  Just hope the big man show me some courtesy.

  Nas

  Rap, Men, Hip Hop

  "Song: 'Like Smoke'". 2011.

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• Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."

  Caryll Houselander

  Love, Life, God

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.38, Rowman & Littlefield

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• No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Deceit, Behinds

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