Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
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