David Beckham Quotes

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.

I'm very respectful of others.

My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.

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.

If you're not a nice person, don't call.

I would never disrespect anyone.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

Manners are really very important to me.

Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous.

That was my upbringing: you treat people with respect.

You should respect the people you are around.

I'm just not going around disrespecting people.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

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

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

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