Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Simmons

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Barry Diller

I never thought I was a very good manager.

Colley Cibber

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Dick Francis

Good manners are a sign of strength.

David Ogilvy

I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners.

Cillian Murphy

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Amy Vanderbilt

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Billy Sunday

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

John Dewey

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

Lloyd Kaufman

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

Lord Chesterfield

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where there are no women there are no good manners

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The society of women is the element of good manners.

G. H. Hardy

I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many quite respectable mathematicians, are contemptuous about proof. I have heard Professor Eddington, for example, maintain that proof, as pure mathematicians understand it, is really quite uninteresting and unimportant, and that no one who is really certain that he has found something good should waste his time looking for proof.

Felipe Alou

Any time you put Matheny in, that's good managing.

Jeff Garlin

If you're gonna be a maniac, pyro's not a good maniac.

Emily Post

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business.

Lillian Gish

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Michael Pena

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

P. J. O'Rourke

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

Mason Cooley

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

Mason Cooley

Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.

John Vanbrugh

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Henepola Gunaratana

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.

William Shenstone

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.

Richard Whately

Good manners are a part of good morals.

Rebecca Wells

Forget love. Try good manners.

Lee Iacocca

If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.

Terrence Malick

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make

Richard Branson

I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

Tipper Gore

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

Victoria Principal

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager