168 Nice Guy Quotes

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Famous Nice Guy Quotes

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own. — Charles Dickens

I'm actually a really nice guy, once you get to blow me. — Anthony Jeselnik

I'm a handsome man with a charming personality. - Gabe Newell

I'm a handsome man with a charming personality. — Gabe Newell

I'm the guy, I'm kind of like the, uh, Everyman, so I think people just relate to that. — Kato Kaelin

I wasn't mean; I wasn't evil. I was nice. And let me tell you, a hesitant man is the last thing in the world a woman needs. She needs a lover and a warrior, not a Really Nice Guy. — John Eldredge

Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody. — Kirk Douglas

You know, I'm a pretty mellow guy. I'm pretty easy-going. I see everyone's perspective. — Paul Walker

I am at heart a gentleman. — Marlene Dietrich

The good man is the friend of all living things. — Mahatma Gandhi

The world is full of nice people. If you cant find one, be one. - Nishan

The world is full of nice people. If you cant find one, be one. — Nishan

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy. — Yul Brynner

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

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you. - Jack Canfield

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you. — Jack Canfield

The media wants a nice guy, so I can give that to them. I figured I could be myself in this interview since no one's gonna read this JV newspaper. — Dabo Swinney

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far. — Muhammad Ali

Short Nice Guy Quotes

  • A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. — Lana Turner
  • I'm a real positive person. Non-violent. Love everybody. I'm definitely an asset to the world. — Lil B
  • I'm the guy with the good attitude towards menstruation. — Dave Foley
  • Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy. — A. J. P. Taylor
  • President Trump is very nice and cool... and I'm nice and cool too. — Nayib Bukele
  • An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. — Oscar Wilde
  • Handsome is as handsome does — J. R. R. Tolkien
  • A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude. — Oscar Wilde
  • A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it. — Arthur Baer
  • I was always the Southern gentleman. — Lance Bass

Nice Guy Image Quotes

Nice guy quote The saddest thing for a girl to do is dumb herself down for a guy.
The saddest thing for a girl to do is dumb herself down for a guy.

Being A Nice Guy Quotes

I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him! — Miley Cyrus

You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy. I would go a month, two months, without having sex. It worked for me because it made me a vicious animal. You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that. — Jake LaMotta

I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels. — Stephenie Meyer

Nice guy quote Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me. — Stefan Sagmeister

It's always really cool when you get to play with someone who you like and they go out of their way to be nice to you; it's not just a 'oh I played with them but I didn't meet them' sort of situation, so shout out to those guys for being awesome. — Hoodie Allen

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy. — Dustin Hoffman

Nice guy quote The world is full of nice people. If you can't find one, be one.
The world is full of nice people. If you can't find one, be one.

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me. — Elia Kazan

I never want to be winking at the audience and saying, "This character is really a nice guy." — Vik Sahay

My dad - who was a tough guy, a Green Beret - always looked nice and wore these bright Sansabelt pants. He always said, "You have two options: You can be a follower or you can be a leader. And you don't ever want to follow anybody." And that's kind of become my philosophy about everything. — Bubba Watson

It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind. — Dwayne Johnson

Don't Be A Nice Guy Quotes

I want to be real. I don't want to pose as anything. I don't want to pose as a tough guy. I don't want to pose as a nice guy. — Trevor Bayne

I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to. — Paul Giamatti

Having a kind heart, you care about everybody else. You don't eat everything. Don't be a big. People in the community, be nice. As coaches, we want to see guys develop those kind of things, take those things with them when they leave our programs. — John Calipari

Nice guy quote All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

The guys in high school were like, "You've got a nice voice; you should keep singing," but I never honestly thought that one day I'd be a singer. When you're young, you don't see the signs. — Victoria Legrand

I wouldn't necessarily want to be a big muscular guy. It's nice to be gorgeous whether you're male or female assuming you don't lose whatever else you have. — Woody Allen

If I was managing Chelsea, people wouldn't be saying Paul Jewell was a nice guy, they would be saying I had too much money to spend. On balance, I would quite like it at the end of the season if people don't like us. — Paul Jewell

Nice guy quote The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of fai
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why. — Tupac Shakur

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella. — John Steinbeck

Nice Guys Finish Last Quotes

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. - Evan Davis

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in. — Evan Davis

winning is not everything it is the only thing — Vince Lombardi

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last. — Leo Durocher

Nice guy quote When you're not doing so well, vote for a better life for yourself. If you are doing quite nicely, v
When you're not doing so well, vote for a better life for yourself. If you are doing quite nicely, vote for a better life for others.

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. — Mort Walker

If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them. — Edward Dyer

It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'. — Leo Durocher

Nice guy quote Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.
Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.

Nice guys do not finish last. Last place is for the cowards and those too full of fear to take action. — Robert Kiyosaki

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game ever starts. — Addison Walker

Nice guys finish last. — Leo Durocher

We're living proof that nice guys always finish last. — Matthew Cooper

Nice Man Quotes

The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There is nothing innocuous or safe about the Gospel. Jesus did not get crucified because he was a nice man. — Walter Brueggemann

A guy complains of a headache. Another guy says, Do what I do. I put my head on my wife's bosom, and the headache goes away. The next day, the man says, Did you do what I told you to? Yes, I sure did. By the way, you have a nice house! — Henny Youngman

I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body, he should take up ping pong. — Steve Reeves

Nice guy quote The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

I want a girl who looks good when she wakes up in the morning. We could take her face and dip it in dough and she'll make some nice-face cookies. Some girls wake up, man, you could put their face in dough and you'll get a gorilla cookie, for real! — Flavor Flav

Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever. — Orlando Figes

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine. — Joan Cusack

Nice guy quote Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, ut becau
Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, ut because you are.

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen. — Ginger Rogers

A Kiss," said Mogget sleepily. "Actually, just a breath would do. But you have to start kissing someone sometime, I suppose." "A breath?" she asked. She didn't want to kiss just any wooden man. He looked nice enough, but he might not be like his looks. A kiss seemed too forward. — Garth Nix

Everybody who comes from the gangster life - they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice cars. Bills paid. Kids in school. Food on the table. Nothing more. — Ice Cube

Being single is pretty good. It's a nice sense of irresponsibility. — Michael Douglas

Good Guy Quotes

I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face. — Abdul Kalam

I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living. — Lucky Luciano

And the next morning at whatever time he’d decided, he’d awaken to find me standing outside his door. No matter what had happened the night before – good game, bad game, soreness, fatigue – he was up working out every morning while most of the other guys slept. — Tim Grover

Nice guy quote Be a nice human
Be a nice human

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. — Wayne LaPierre

I don't dislike Matt Lindland. I didn't blackball him from the UFC, either. Matt Lindland is a good guy and I've never had a personal issue with him. — Dana White

I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, 'How I can I compete with that?' Being a regular black girl wasn't good enough. — Lil' Kim

Nice guy quote The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys. — Charlton Heston

The amazing thing about the prospect of Elon Musk buying Twitter, so far, is how much it’s exposed the game. If you genuinely fear and will fight against others having the ability to communicate then you are not the good guy. Period. — Dave Smith

I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too. — Harry Styles

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he'd say, 'Boss, we've got this, and that, and the other thing.' And I'd look at him and I'd say, 'Good.' — Jocko Willink

Nice Person Quotes

I'm a very lucky person. I'm an idiot, and I've shoveled through life rather nicely so far, so I don't feel like I deserve good treatment. — John Mulaney

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

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

Most attackers are looking for easy victims. They're not looking for a fight, not even a verbal one. Saying No makes you a less attractive target. Submitting and being nice to attackers in the hope that they will be nice to you in return is not the safest strategy. — William Ury

I prefer things nice and simple. — Akira Toriyama

A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning. — Gavin de Becker

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully. — Marjorie Holmes

Tell the person next to you that they look nice today. If you are alone, tell yourself. — Markiplier

A teleporter would be nice. There are lots of places I want to go, but getting there is a pain. — Akira Toriyama

If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long. — Emma Bell

Type Of Guy Quotes

I love to be clean. I wear the same things, all of my clothes pretty much look the same. I'm a plain and simple type of guy. I don't really do a lotta busy colors and things of that nature. I feel like less is more. — Kevin Gates

I've never been the type of guy that had a lot of friends or was part of the cool group. — Jim Jefferies

My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things. — Allen Iverson

I’m the type of guy to throw rocks at the ground and miss. — Jake Paul

You want to be ‘the guy’ who services this type of person or solves this type of problem. And even more niched ‘I solve this type of problem for this specific type of person in this unique counter-intuitive way that reverses their deepest fear. — Alex Hormozi

I am the type of guy that always looks into the future. But, of course, you never completely forget a javelin in your shoulder. — Roman Sebrle

Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to. — Paul Pierce

I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing. — Ja Rule

A guy like Malcolm who makes that type of quick, instinctive plays, that's one of his strong suits. I don't think it surprised any of us players because that's what his skill set is. — Tom Brady

I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am not really a laugh-at-things type of guy and I don't smile and laugh all the time... But if a girl can make me laugh... I'm in love!!!! — Jesse McCartney

Perfect Guy Quotes

Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you. — Bob Marley

Love hard when there is love to be had. — Bob Marley

My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn't worry about being cool. — Selena Gomez

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. — Bob Marley

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent. — Frank Pittman

You guys that worry about eating clean are actually merely bodybuilders looking for justification for your obsession with abs. You cannot get big and strong on 3000 kcal/day. And you cannot eat 7000/day and eat perfectly “clean”. — Mark Rippetoe

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing. — Gerry Cooney

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

You guys just here to blame someone. You never look yourselves in the mirror, eh? You're always good. You never make the mistakes. Your articles are always perfect. In reality, what have you done for this city? If you ask yourself, what have you done besides only criticize? Not much. — Ilya Bryzgalov

This guy says, "I'm perfect for you, 'cause I'm a cross between a macho man and a sensitive man." I said, "Oh, a gay trucker?" — Judy Tenuta

Sweet Guy Quotes

Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks. — Amber Frey

Well, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I've been seeing this really sweet guy for the past few weeks. — Scott Peterson

It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why. — Daniel Dennett

It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why. — Dan Dennett

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing. — Jennifer Aniston

Every guy is different, but just prepare to know him in a different way and be OK with it, because the times I've lived with girls, and I've lived with some very sweet girls, I felt bad that they had to live with me. — Chris D'Elia

When fans come up to me and Vanessa, they're really sweet and ask for autographs - but once they see the guys, the girls tend to scream. — Ashley Tisdale

From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course. — Manny Farber

People always ask me about my makeout scenes with him [Tyler Posey]. We joke around a lot and are like, ‘Oh, that was a sloppy one!’ But seriously, I don’t have to make an effort to have chemistry with him. He’s such a sweet guy and really loyal. — Crystal Reed

My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while. — Tiffani Thiessen

Nice Girl Quotes

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity. — Albert Einstein

Just be nice to other girls because as a force we are a whole lot stronger when we stick together. — Perrie Edwards

Girls say it's hard to find nice guys. It's actually really easy. It's just all nice guys are ugly. — Daniel Tosh

Sure, mom, I settle down with a nice girl every night, then I'm free the next morning. — Joe Pesci

I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house! — George Clooney

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too. — Alicia Silverstone

Everybody has a bad hair day, but us girls still like to be told we look nice even if we don't feel like we do. — Cat Deeley

I like girls who are natural because I am natural in everything I do. If I meet a girl who is snobby and wants special treatment, she's not going to get it from me because she hasn't earned it. But I've been basically lucky because I've mostly met nice girls - and that's what attracts me. — River Phoenix

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right? — J. Cole

If you can find a nice pretty country girl that can cook and carries her bible, now there's a woman. — Phil Robertson

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More Nice Guy Quotes

Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is. — Garry Shandling

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange. — Megan Fox

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't. — Don Van Vliet

I remember learning to drive on my dad's lap. Did you guys ever do that? He'd work the brakes. I'd work the wheel. Then I went to take the driver's test and sat on the examiner's lap. I failed the exam. But he still writes to me. That's the really nice part. — Garry Shandling

When you get that nice celebration coming into the dugout and you're getting your ass hammered by guys, there's no better feeling than to have that done. — Matt Stairs

It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that. — Ryan Hall

I don't know why - and I'm not just saying this to look good - I've just always been a really nice guy. — MrBeast

I'd rather have too many good guys than not enough. It's a nice problem. They sort themselves out because when guys fight each other, they determine who deserves the title shot, not me. — Dana White

In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last. — Sandy Koufax

I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have my guard up because it's a street rule that when men come around that I don't know, I just immediately throw shade on them. But I don't associate with fellas all that much; if it's a girl - a beautiful girl - I be nice. — The Notorious B.I.G.

People say I'm hard, I'm Mr Angry. I'm this, I'm that. I just want to win matches. There's no point going out there and being Mr Nice Guy. We get 55,000 at Old Trafford and I don't think they want fellas going out there and thinking: Ah, if we lose, so what? — Roy Keane

José Mourinho is a big star. He's nice. The first time he met Helena [Ibrahimovic's partner] he whispered to her: 'Helena, you have only one mission - feed Zlatan, let him sleep, keep him happy.' That guy says whatever he wants. I like him. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I'm not looking for much, I just want, like, a really nice guy who has, you know, like a job... and the missing half of this golden amulet. — Maria Bamford

I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man. — Joe Biden

You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy he is. Shake his hand. Especially if you win. — Chuck Bednarik

He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off. — Lyndon B. Johnson

It was also great to have the Backstreet Boys appear on stage with me because I have gotten to know them all a little bit just recently, and not only are they great performers, but they also very hard working professionals and really nice guys. — Elton John

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player — Bobby Fischer

It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something. — Owen Wilson

Yes, I'm a nice man and I enjoy babies. I'm a sensitive guy. I held a baby the other day and it was the first time either of us cried. — Garry Shandling

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him. — Michael J. Fox

Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy. — Neil Patrick Harris

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