Inspirational Quotes

  • “The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.” – Fred Astaire
  • “You can get through life with bad manners, but it’s easier with good manners.” – Lillian Gish
  • “Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” – Clarence Thomas
  • “Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.” – Author Unknown
  • “Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.” – Wayne Dyer
  • “Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.” – Roger Moore
  • “Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
  • “I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.” – Og Mandino
  • “Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you’ve sent someone a thank-you note.” – Bernie Brillstein
  • “Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.” – Bill Kelly
  • “Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.  If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.” – Emily Post
  • “Good manners:  The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup” – Bennett Cerf
  • “Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.” – Margaret Walker 
  • No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~ Aesop
  • For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. ~ Audrey Hepburn
  • Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa
  • Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love. ~ Gandhi
  • Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time. ~ Richard Carlson
  • Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~ James Matthew Barrie
  • How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it! ~ George Elliston
  • Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity. Kindness in giving creates love. ~ Lao-Tse
  • Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~ Author Unknown
  • Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. ~ Barbara De Angelis