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Quotes About Niceness

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.
~ Gavin de Becker
Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.
~ Gavin de Becker
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. Like rapport-building, charm and the deceptive smile, unsolicited niceness often has a discoverable motive.
~ Gavin de Becker
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
I discovered that it is much more effective to act like a nice guy and be "reasonable
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Malcolm rubbed his eyes. 'And my niceness is going to save the world, is it?
~ Tom Holt
Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.
~ Kingsley Amis
I stomp toward her and point. I've SO had it with her. "That is SO not nice." You don't even talk like a queen." She glares at me. Nick raises an eyebrow at me. "You're a QUEEN?" I walk to the edge of the bed, stand just a few inches away from her. Power rolls off of her. "Okay, please refrain from your insidious comments, which are obviously geared to inflict harm upon my psyche. I do not appreciate it." Nick cracks up. "Well, you ARE the same Zara.
~ Carrie Jones
I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.
~ Chrissy Teigen
But Paying It Forward is about spontaneously offering favors, not needing to say yes when someone asks too much of you. And also, it's about kindness rather than niceness. There's a difference. Kindness is spontaneous and real. Niceness just mostly wants to be liked.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Paying It Forward is about spontaneously offering favors, not needing to say yes when someone asks too much of you. And also, it's about kindness rather than niceness. There's a difference. Kindness is spontaneous and real. Niceness just mostly wants to be liked.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I just try to be as nice as possible and make fun of myself and laugh at the jokes.
~ Mikaela Shiffrin
I find nice people kind of boring.
~ Jason Reitman
'Bloody do-gooders' is my expression for people who are nicer than me, who are better than me.
~ Mike Rowe
A lot of people say I'm a lot nicer as a person than they thought I was, but I don't know what that means.
~ Nick Viall
Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.
~ Danny Boyle
I'd rather be at home with my family anyway. I'm a completely different person there than on the football field. Ask anybody who knows me. They will all say I'm one of the nicest people you could ever meet.
~ Robbie Savage
It was easy to be nice to an attractive woman over a dinner table. The despair came later, with children and tiredness and the sheer drudgery of marriage and monogamy.
~ Nick Hornby
We secretly know that being seen as nice is the same as being nice in actuality. If you present yourself as a nice person, that becomes the prism for how your other actions are judged. The deeper motives that drive you can only be questioned by those who know you exceptionally well, and (most of the time) not even by them. If you act nice, you're nice.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.
~ Kingsley Amis
There's only a few proper rock 'n' roll stars. I think it will come back - there's definitely room for a bad boy or bad girl. It's way too nice at the moment in pop, everyone's got to be so nice.
~ Thomas Grennan
Creativity isn't always an index of niceness
~ Thomas Ligotti
Easterners didn't really care? Niceness for its own sake wasn't a virtue to them.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
The good news is that she is one of the nicest people in the universe. The bad news is, that's because she always does exactly what she pleases. An Aquarius female is rebellious, headstrong, and contrary. She can be selfishly independent and exasperating, especially when she is running through the house screaming, "freedom!
~ Hazel Dixon-Cooper