Benazir Bhutto Quotes

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

My parents always told me to be respectful to anyone you meet and to live your life that way.

Everyone can be rude, and everyone can be kind.

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.

I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.

It's nice to be important, but it's important to always be nice.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think it just as important that we prepare people for the definition of being gentle. ... for so many years gentle has been equated with weakness but it requires more strength to be gentle. So it's the every day encounters of life that I think we prepare children for and prepare them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

I'm very respectful of others.

Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous.

I always try to be nice. I never want to be that person that anyone perceives as being rude or disrespectful, 'cause that's not me at all.

I pride myself on being the nicest person in the room. My grandmother always told me, 'Manners will take you where money won't.' When I walk into a room, I say "hello" to everyone I don't care who the person is or what they do, it's simply being respectful.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

It's nice to be important but it's even more important to be nice. I grew up in a world where there were a lot of big physical guys...and woman so it's always important to be nice to me.

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.