Josh Gondelman Quotes

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

Be kind. Be kind. Be kind.

Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.

Everyone can be rude, and everyone can be kind.

I don't want to be mean to people. I try to be as nice as possible to everyone.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

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

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

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

I'm not sure if I've learned anything from show business. Life in general has taught me if you're kind to people, everything gets easier. Being a decent person really smoothes the way for you and everyone else.

I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy.

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.

I know it sounds cliched, but if we just treated each other as we'd like to be treated ourselves, we'd all be doing a lot better.

I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.

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'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

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.

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

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

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean.

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody.