Amelia Barr Quotes

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

The Southerner has no mind; he has temperament. He was not a scholar; he had no intellectual training; he could not analyze an idea, and he could not even conceive of even admitting two; but in life, one could get along very well without ideas, if one only had the social instincts.

We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA.

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.

Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill

To be rude is as good as being clever.

The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.

We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.

The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

I think sometimes people forget how to be nice to people. I try not to let it get to me.

There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellows, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.