William J. H. Boetcker Quotes

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.

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

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

The interesting thing is that everyone in golf is just nice. You learn a lot about people playing golf: their integrity, how they play under pressure.

When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

I'm from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That's my personality.

Never descend to the ways of those above you.

Listen, anybody that knows me knows I'm not disrespectful.

If you're rude to waiters or waitstaff, I cannot handle that. I really think that shows your true personality.

On the court as well as off the court, I'm going to do everything that's right and try to lead by example.

Every student must be a gentleman.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

My father always used to say ‘treat everyone as a gentleman; not because they are, but because you are.’

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.