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Rudeness is a lack of concern or respect for the rights and feelings of others

• Rudeness: Not having or showing concern or respect for the rights and feelings of other people: not polite. Merriam Webster
• Rudeness: Discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way. Dictionary.com
• Courtesy,  Respect,  Tact

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Rudeness is a sure sign of weakness

• Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life — for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them. Laura Teresa Marquez
• Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer
• Weakness,  Vice

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Rudeness can take many forms

• It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring. Lemony Snicket
• Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness. Confucius
• There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. John Locke
• When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. Louis Nizer

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Ingratitude is always rudeness

• Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man. Napoleon Bonaparte
• A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. Saadi
• Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man! Edward Young
• Brutes leave ingratitude to man. Charles Caleb Colton
• An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from. Timothy Dexter
• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, thou dost not bite so nigh, as benefits forgot. William Shakespeare
• Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. ShareHonoré De Balzac
• Ingratitude

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Keeping people waiting is rudeness

• People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. French Proverb
• Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you. Karen Joy Fowler
• If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. Richard Cecil
• Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time. Horace Mann
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At times, politeness can be a kind of disguised rudeness

• You can’t be truly rude until you understand good manners. Rita Mae Brown
• Politeness is organized indifference. Paul Valéry
• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. V. Lucas
• A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect. Bryant McGill
• One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. Josh Billings
• Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy. Ambrose Bierce
• Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. Mary Wilson Little
• The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. Paul Theroux
• Politeness and courtesy

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True love is never rude

• Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.  Nicholas Sparks
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Rudeness makes enemies unnecessarily

• It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter– an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy. Arthur Schopenhauer
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Rudeness creates unnecessary drama

• A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. Bill Watterson

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Rudeness makes you insufferable

• No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy. Bryant McGill

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Rudeness in parents creates rude children

• Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
• The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. Fred Astaire
• Parenting,  Child raising

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Rudeness unmasks arrogance

• Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. Swami Sivananda
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To be rude is to be in the wrong

• Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. Maurice Baring

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Transcend rudeness through kindness and respect

• Treat every person with kindness and respect, even those who are rude to you. Remember that you show compassion to others not because of who they are but because of who you are. Andrew T. Somers
• Treat people as you would like to be treated. Karma’s only a bitch if you are.
• Why give in to rudeness, when you can fight back with kindness. Donna A. Favors
• Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. Albert Einstein
• I fear no one, but I respect everyone. Roger Federer
• Treat everyone with the same level of respect you would give to your grandfather and the same level of patience you would have with your baby brother. Marc and Angel Chernoff
• Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners. Laurence Sterne
• I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. Tim Gunn
• Kindness,  Respect

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Transcend rudeness through politeness and courtesy …

• Politeness is the art of choosing among one’s real thoughts. Abel Stevens
• Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. V. Lucas
• Politeness is a sign of dignity, not subservience. Theodore Roosevelt
• Politeness and courtesy

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… knowing that politeness and courtesy bring great rewards

• Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair. Sa’di
• Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. Arthur Schopenhauer
• He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Basil
• The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. Christian Nevell Bovee
• There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you’ve sent someone a thank-you note. Bernie Brillstein
• When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war. Confucius
• Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. Jean Paul Richter
• A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect. Bryant McGill
• A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Basil
• Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends. William Feather
• Civility costs nothing and buys everything. Mary Wortley Montague
• Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go. Margaret Walker
• To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire
• Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass. Sir John Vanbrugh

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Transcend rudeness by expressing gratitude

• Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you’ve sent someone a thank-you note. Bernie Brillstein
• Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone. Gertrude Stein
• Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. Jacques Maritain
• Saying Thank You is more than good manners, it’s good spirituality. Alfred-Pierre Joseph Agache
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Transcend rudeness through good manners …

• Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. Bryant McGill
• Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them. Bill Kelly
• Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right.  But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident.  J. O’Rourke
• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.  Emily Post
• A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. Amy Vanderbilt
• Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease…by turning any answer into another question. Tina Brown

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… even if it means being patient with bad manners

• Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones. Gabirol
• The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly. Kahlil Gibran
• A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill manners. Lord Chesterfield
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Transcend rudeness through tact

• Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. Howard W. Newton
• Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them. Carl Zuckmayer
• Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. Samuel Butler
• The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. Josiah Gilbert Holland
• Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. Sarah Orne Jewett
• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln
• Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen.
• Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face. Frank Medlicott
• Tact is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. William Scargill
• A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life. Charles Simmons
• Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.  Grenville Kleiser
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Transcend rudeness by learning to bite your tongue

• Courtesy can also take the form of biting your own tongue
• The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and silently watch someone else do it wrong. H. White
• If you have nothing nice to say about a person . . . don’t say it.
• To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. Proverb
• Right speech

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Transcend rudeness through being hospitable

• Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home. S. Farynski
• Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Who practices hospitality entertains God himself. Proverb
• True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen

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Differences in opinion are no excuse for rudeness

• Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness. Judith S. Marin
• To disagree, one doesn’t have to be disagreeable. Barry M. Goldwater and Jack Casserly, Goldwater
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The art of leadership is to be strong but not rude

• The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. Jim Rohn
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• Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.  Bennett Cerf
• Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat. Mignon McLaughlin
• Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.  Ambrose Bierce
• Says the rude child: “No, I won’t do it.”  Says the courteous grown-up:  “Yes, I won’t do it.”  Mignon McLaughlin
• You can’t be truly rude until you understand good manners. Rita Mae Brown
• I’ll wait until your mouth is full of food before I ask you a question. That’s just the kind of gentleman I am. Jarod Kintz
• A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. P.J. O’Rourke
• I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. I don’t like them myself. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. Humphrey Bogart
• Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain
• The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.  Paul Theroux

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