Best 149 quotes in «civility quotes» category

To work best democracy needs a diversity of thoughts, ideas and expression. This is only possible with freedom and civility.

Trust is a factor in all communications, and civility reflects back to understanding and respecting our differences.

Trustworthiness is a mark of a success-minded person. To be seen as trustworthy is a great compliment. When people trust you, they expect that you will honor their trust.

We are all different and we all have a different sense of humor.

We have gotten so use to humor being something nasty and offensive that we started to believe that was the only way to get a laugh.

When civility is illusory, war is inevitable.

When it becomes more profitable to make fun of someone or berate them for their beliefs than it is to offer a constructive alternative, intellectual discourse is threatened. And, when a people can no longer rely on intellectual discourse, the society is bound to fall.

Whether in business or in life, you can be civil and get ahead. Whatever your age or circumstance, you can master civility. So what are you doing today to connect with others? What kind of legacy are you leaving? Are you lifting people up or holding them down? In each moment we get to choose who we want to be. Who do you want to be?

Why is civility important? Because civilized society depends upon it. That we might coexist by a series of civil exchanges with most if not all people despite varying ideas and feelings. Civil compromises are the only reason dozens of widely varying groups working together made the United States a great power. Those who support progress promote civility; those who oppose it promote harassment and violence, no matter the political affiliation of the person who does so.

Without addressing how we live together and finding a way that respects both nature and our universal humanity, we won't have the collective ability, strength, or shared vision necessary to protect our world or build a better one.

Your word is your brand and if your word contradicts the quality of what you grow and sell, you will have difficulty in your community in the future.

A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

Being aloof, gruff, or stern never got anyone anywhere. Who wants to be treated like that? Certainly not you. And surely not the people you meet.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

Civility cost nothing.

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

Civility is not a sign of weakness.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.

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.'

Trust is a factor in all communications, and civility reflects a respect for our differences.

Una "persona" hace lo que debe, cuando debe y donde debe. Una "bestia" hace lo que le da la gana, cuando le da la gana y donde le da la gana.

We watch death and destruction on TV, in movies, over the news and online so much that it is just a part of our lives. It was never meant to be that way. In the end, we have paid a heavy price for our curiosity.

When had I tamed myself? It had been a lengthy apprenticeship, begun when I was as young as ten, and continued relentlessly throughout my adolescence, when I had discovered to my own terror that I wanted to murder somebody: my father, a sarcastic friend, my professor of Latin and Greek, even a rude passerby. It was not until I was almost twenty that I began to suspect that, along with the repression of my violent impulses, I had repressed everything, even my ability to experience a profound emotion, even my impulse to do good deeds and help others. I had become as good as I had hoped to be, but good with the cautious detachment of one who never indulges in excess.

Why is civility important? Because civilized society depends upon it.

Wisdom tells us that the best time for silence is when we are mad or upset.

Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.

You don't have to prove confidence; when you have it, it'll show. Real confidence is quiet, tactful, civil, and humble.

Fair words cost nothing.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

Nothing costs less nor is cheaper than compliments of civility.

Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.