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The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.
Mas Oyama
The path of Martial Arts is a journey that starts and finishes with civility. Thus, always show genuine politeness in all situations.
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Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Graciousness requires nothing, yet acquires all.
4.
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
Margaret Chase Smith
6.
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.
Saint Basil
7.
Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
Baruch Spinoza
8.
Remember that you must always have a deep regard for courtesy, and you must be respectful and obedient toward your seniors.
Gichin Funakoshi
9.
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E. V. Lucas
10.
A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.
Mas Oyama
13.
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
Fannie Flagg
14.
Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.
Lewis Carroll
15.
If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.
Piero Ferrucci
16.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
17.
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.
Emily Post
18.
No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.
Bryant H. McGill
20.
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Mahatma Gandhi
21.
There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make sure you do what you love.
Lalah Hathaway
23.
The thorny point
Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred
And know some nurture.
William Shakespeare
24.
Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy
Owen Feltham
26.
Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!
Coventry Patmore
27.
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.
Henri Rousseau
28.
Defend your beliefs with courtesy and with compassion, but defend them.
Jeffrey R. Holland
30.
Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
J. K. Rowling
32.
Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.
John Wanamaker
33.
Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Cocteau
34.
I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
William Penn
35.
ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.
Laozi
37.
Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.
William Shakespeare
38.
Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors.
Robert Spector
39.
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.
John Milton
40.
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
44.
Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be,
That he should be so sterne to stranger wight;
For seldom yet did living creature see
That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.
Edmund Spenser
45.
The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.
Gustav Stresemann
46.
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
Philip Massinger
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Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.
Lord Chesterfield
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Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.
Benjamin Franklin
49.
Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
Lewis Carroll
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Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.
Alveda King