Nick Vujicic Quotes

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.

If you can't say anything bad about someone, don't say anything at all, because it won't get printed.

The crucial part of a citizens' culture is learning to correct others without mistreating them or generating aggression. We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

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

Always be kind, but kindness doesn't mean that you have to not say what you think.

I'm not a trash-talker.

Let me say that I would never talk about anyone's child in a negative way.

I have to watch my language. I think a lot about the words I use in both the public environment and the dressing room. The language you use is a direct insight into how you are feeling.

You can choose to be civil or not be civil. What is the point of going through the day and think it's cool to wear your honesty on your sleeve at the expense of everyone around you?

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered.

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

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

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Never insult anyone by accident.

Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.

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.

I don't want to go about offending people; that's not my plan.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.

It's important to be thoughtful and mindful about the things you say to other people.