Best 40 quotes in «being nice quotes» category

You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.

Why on earth have I, because I'm a woman, got to be nice to everyone?

Wouldn't it be nice if the internet blew up?

Being nice is the worst thing a woman can be. Nice means you have to swallow your own feelings and focus on everyone else's. Nice means you don't speak up when you're wronged. Nice means being a people pleaser and a conciliator and worrying yourself to death over others' opinions. Nice means never getting what you really want.... Authentic. Genuine. Live your truth. Let others live theirs. Don't kiss anyone's ass, but don't be an asshole, either.

You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

Do you think Americans are just too open and outgoing for their own good? Do Europeans still make fun of Americans on this count?' David asked. Foucault replied, 'Yes, I have heard Europeans scoff at American friendliness, the American way of 'being nice', but they are mistaken. We spend a lot of time with strangers, so why not enjoy it? We probably spend at least three-fourths of our time in very short encounters with people, in chance encounters. This way of relating to people, then, is very important. Why buy hostility with your groceries? Be friendly with the checker and the stock clerk! Antagonism against each other only saps the energy that could and should be directed against the systems of power that oppress us.

You're extra nice. With everyone. You go out of your way to make everyone feel special." "Well, what's wrong with that?" "How is anyone supposed to know when they are special? How was I supposed to know you weren't just being nice?

Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

It's like Eldridge Kestenbaum always says - you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar." "Horse manure catches more flies than honey and vinegar put together," retorted Mark.

Now there's a girl I don't want to mess with' — or at least, that's what I would think if I had a chronic fear of freakishly nice people.

When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.

Being nice? He’s being horny.

She hates that word. Nice is what you call ice cream, or a paper doily, or fluffy bunny rabbit print pattern.

To every corner of the planet, to the young and old, to all humanity. I see your beauty. I really do.

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

Be nice to old people.

It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head.

Be nice to everyone you meet. Because everyone is going through their own struggle.

Be nice to me or you won't get a future XFL franchise.

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.

Be nice to everyone and tell jokes.

I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.

Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris

It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.

It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].

I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

It doesn't cost anything more to be nice.

It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.

It pays to be nice. Maybe not right away, but someday.

It's nice to be important, but it's also important to be nice. Never forget that.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

No one pays me to be nice.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

I've always liked older ladies. I'm comfortable with it. They seem to be nice. They've seen it all.

I want you to be nice...until it's time to not be nice.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

This being-nice crap was for thebirds.