Following is our list of the most famous complaisance quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational complaisance quotes. Hopefully, these complaisance quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your complaisance knowledge!
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. — Russell Lynes
Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing. — Wayne Dyer
He who avoids complaint invites happiness. — Abu Bakr
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
Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness. — Democritus
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness. — Grenville Kleiser
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. — Jacques Maritain
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. — Bryant H. McGill
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and, in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. — Bryant H. McGill
Short Complaisance Quotes
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable. — Joseph Addison
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. — Thomas Paine
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. — Gustave Flaubert
A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant. — Michel de Montaigne
What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones. — Moliere
Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I. — Wilhelm Keitel
Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior. — Herbert Hoover
The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is his adventure and never-ending delight. It is complaisant and elusive but never dull. It is wonderful both in the small and in the large. In short, its exploration is the highest occupation for a gentleman. — Isidor Isaac Rabi
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. — Agnes Repplier
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity. — Doug Stanhope
Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within. — Jean De La Bruyere
I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors. — Jane Austen
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers. — Judge Learned Hand
The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. — Robert Burns
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies. — Thucydides
To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse, 10 times as ignorant, 10 times as unfair and tyrannical, 10 times as complaisant and pusillanimous, and 10 times as devious, hypocritical, disingenuous, deceitful, pharisaical, Pecksniffian, fraudulent, slippery, unscrupulous, perfidious, lewd and dishonest. — H. L. Mencken
The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men's company, can only be acquired in women's. — Lord Chesterfield
Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance. — John Dryden
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of. It was Plato's advice to an unpolished writer that he should sacrifice to the graces. In the same manner I would advise every man of learning, who would not appear in the world a mere scholar or philosopher, to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned. — Joseph Addison
The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original. — Margaret Fuller
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers. — Learned Hand
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. — Mary Wortley Montagu
The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests. — Alexander Hamilton
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