You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me. — James Stewart
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bone. — Moroccan Proverbs
How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly. — Julia Child
How delightful to find a friend in everyone. — Joseph Brodsky
Nice words are free, so choose ones that please another’s ears. — Vietnamese Proverbs
A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant. — Paul Halmos
Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman. — Peter Mayle
When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you. — Jack Canfield
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you. — Elsie De Wolfe
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness. — Grenville Kleiser
Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets. — Jimmy Buffett
Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile. — Alexander Smith
Short Being Pleasant Quotes
Learn to be satisfied. It is just as easy as being dissatisfied-and much more pleasant. — Jacob de Jager
Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile? — Socrates
Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember. — Virgil
Top 10 Being Pleasant Quotes
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. — Norman Vincent Peale
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. — James Baldwin
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. — Elizabeth I
If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. — Anne Bradstreet
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you. — Jaggi Vasudev
You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves. — Christopher Marlowe
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. — Anne Bradstreet
When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened. — Vanna Bonta
Being Pleasant Image Quotes
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say NO to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger YES burning inside.
Pleasant Day Quotes
Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity. — James Stewart
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. — Louisa May Alcott
It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day. — Matthew Hayden
Think that's what attracted me to painting so much. I could create any kind of world that I wanted. Nothing hurts here, no pain, nobody's unhappy, it's a pleasant place. Everything's nice here.
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'. — Phillip Lopate
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. — Elbert Hubbard
The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again. — Henry David Thoreau
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers. — Ray Bradbury
Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible. — Dorothy Draper
Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost. — Meriwether Lewis
Kissing Simon was pleasant. It was a gentle sort of pleasant, like lying in a hammock on a summer day with a book and a glass of lemonade — Cassandra Clare
Feeling Pleasant Quotes
Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension. — Peter Rogers
It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels. — Margaret Fuller
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful. — Aristotle
Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods. — Alex Steffen
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race. — Winston Churchill
There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas. — Charles Dickens
H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong. — Clare Boothe Luce
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. — Jim Elliot
Nice Pleasant Quotes
(`Stairway to Heaven' is) a nice pleasant, well-meaning naive little song, very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. `Kashmir' is. — Robert Plant
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. — George Will
Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me. — J. K. Rowling
It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys. — Damon Albarn
I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president. — Jimmy Carter
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy. — Chauncey Depew
I was pleasantly surprised after the book came out. It was like, hey, the home team put down a nice score. — Rocco DiSpirito
I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall. — Noel Clarke
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. — Meg Cabot
I don't always expect good from people. I always expect the bad and I am pleasantly surprised when they are nice. — Nick Wechsler
Being Nice Quotes
I live right in front of my daughter. I have a little house right in front of her because I can stay in touch. It's like a little commune, and it's very nice, because you can be close. I can see my granddaughter. I live very close to my brother, too, and my son. We're a very close family. — Debbie Reynolds
Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am
Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram. — Phife Dawg
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. — Wilson Mizner
I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that. — Eminem
Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect. — Colin Powell
Always be nice to people. Whatever how bad they are to you. To show them you are not like them. — Louis Tomlinson
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about. — Sophia Loren
Being nice should never be perceived as being weak. It's not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of courtesy, manners, grace, a woman's ability to make everyone...feel at home, and it should never be construed as weakness. — Benazir Bhutto
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days. — Alain de Botton
You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head. — Steven Wright
Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst. — Carl von Clausewitz
I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of. — Alexander Fleming
If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal. — Catherine Ponder
Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie. — William Shakespeare
A very pleasant surprise was that items I thought were naughty but that I enjoyed immensely, like strong coffee, dark chocolate, nuts, high fat yoghurt, wine and cheese, are actually likely to be healthy for me and my microbes. — Tim Spector
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be. — Garry Kasparov
I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized. — Derek Landy
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. — David Rockefeller
The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there. — Russell Lynes
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder. — Aldous Huxley
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode. — W. Somerset Maugham
American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn't have to hang up my diapers. And now women have paper diapers and all sorts of conveniences in the home. And it is the man and the technology that has made the home such a pleasant place for women to be. — Phyllis Schlafly
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples. — Charles Dickens
All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic. — Vernon Howard
I am ... troubled and grieved when men argue that many women want to be raped and that it does not bother them at all to be raped by men even when they verbally protest. It would be hard to believe that such great villainy is actually pleasant for them. — Christine de Pizan
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade. — Wendell Berry
Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul. — Jonathan Edwards
Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind. — Matthieu Ricard
I am perfectly satisfied that my Father and my god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured Being. Why? Because I am cheerful, pleasant, lively and good-natured when I have His Spirit…. That arises from the perfection of His attributes; He is a jovial, lively person, and a beautiful man. — Heber C. Kimball
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so. — Jerome K. Jerome
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. — Izaak Walton
Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
So the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity. — Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney
If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur. — Paulo Coelho
I only look to the gracious protection of the Divine Being whose strengthening support I humbly solicit, and whom I fervently pray to look down upon us all. May it be among the dispensations of His Providence to bless our beloved country with honors and with length of days; may her ways beways of pleasantness, and all her paths be peace. — Martin Van Buren
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God. — John Calvin
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