Glenn Kelman Quotes

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

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.

I try to be kind to people, to treat them with respect. And I'm proud of that.

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

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

I'm not always so nice.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

Manners are nothing more than thinking about somebody else.

I just want my daughter to be respectful and nice to people. I want her to understand the importance of being humble.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

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

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.