Quotes for
Dealing with People
You must look into other people as well as at them.
Lord
Chesterfield
A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps
friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Basil
A man's own good breeding is the best security against
other people's ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield
To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to
give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief,
is to alleviate or dispel your own.
Thomas Edwards
Hear the meaning within the word.
William Shakespeare
Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness —
these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of
popularity.
Burmese Proverb
Kind words are the music of the world.
F. W. Faber
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues
of our associates.
Denis Diderot
Arguing with a fool proves there are two.
Doris M. Smith
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few;
and let those be well-tried before you give them your
confidence.
George Washington
Look to be treated by others
as you have treated others.
Publius Syrus
Success in life, in anything,
depends upon the number of persons
that one can make himself agreeable to.
Thomas Carlyle
Never part without loving words to think of during your
absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this
life.
Jean Paul Richter
Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of
ourselves, nor half of the evil they say of others.
J. Petit Senn
The more you say, the less people remember.
François Fénelon
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Thackeray
The soul of conversation is sympathy.
Thomas Campbell
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming
human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and
clear brooks.
George Eliot
Every man is a volume if you know how to
read him.
William Ellery Channing
If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself;
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is
better to say, "Know others."
Menander
The less people speak of their greatness,
the more we think of it.
Lord Bacon
He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks,
coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in
possession of some of the best requisites of man.
Johann Casper Lavater
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill
requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson
It requires less character to discover the faults of others
than is does to tolerate them.
J. Petit Senn
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