Benjamin Banneker Quotes

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.

It's so silly not to be nice.

The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

There are major C.E.O.'s who do not know how to hold a knife and fork properly, but I don't worry about that as much as the lack of kindness.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

Being a good person and fair person is very important in life, I think.

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.

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.

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.

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

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

Just because you can say things that are uncivil does not mean that your should say things that are uncivil.

You know that book, Everything You Need to Know You Learned in Kindergarten. Donald Trump violates every one of them: Don’t tell lies, don’t make fun of people who are handicapped, don’t be mean – all of them.

I'm very conscious about the way I treat people because I was never really taught to treat people in a respectful or kind way. I never really saw that role model, so for me, that made me just want to be the opposite of what I had and treat people the opposite of the way I saw other people treat other people.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.

I'm not disrespectful, I try to be polite.

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

You should respect the people you are around.