Aretha Franklin Quotes

I'm nice to everybody, I respect other people. If you respect me, I respect you.

I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

Men have always been gentlemen to me - responsible people with healthy attitudes.

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.

I've said nice things about the people I was with before, but that's what you do.

I can be nice - I don't need to be rude for no reason.

You get on an elevator with someone, you say hi to them, you speak to them. You give respect. That's just how I've always been.

I think we need a rulebook saying that everyone should be lovely to each other. It doesn't cost anything to be nice.

I think people need to be treated with respect, and that's what we've demanded from everyone.

Everyone can be rude, and everyone can be kind.

I always try to be nice. I never want to be that person that anyone perceives as being rude or disrespectful, 'cause that's not me at all.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

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

Give warm greetings and farewells. I was surprised by how much this resolution changed the atmosphere of my home.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

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 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.

It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time, you can work through anything.

I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.