Being Nice Quotes

“Being nice is the worst thing a woman can be. Nice means you have to swallow your own feelings and focus on everyone else's. Nice means you don't speak up when you're wronged. Nice means being a people pleaser and a conciliator and worrying yourself to death over others' opinions. Nice means never getting what you really want.... Authentic. Genuine. Live your truth. Let others live theirs. Don't kiss anyone's ass, but don't be an asshole, either.”
― J.T. Geissinger, Melt for You

“Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.”
― Daniel Goleman, Working with Emotional Intelligence

“Every once in awhile try to do something nice for somebody you don't know, even if it's just leaving an opening in traffic for them to merge into, small things like that give people hope that we're not all assholes.”
― Joshua Neik

“She hates that word. Nice is what you call ice cream, or a paper doily, or fluffy bunny rabbit print pattern.”
― Alex Scarrow, Afterlight

“Now there's a girl I don't want to mess with' — or at least, that's what I would think if I had a chronic fear of freakishly nice people.”
― Nenia Campbell, Fearscape

“Do you think Americans are just too open and outgoing for their own good? Do Europeans still make fun of Americans on this count?' David asked.
Foucault replied, 'Yes, I have heard Europeans scoff at American friendliness, the American way of 'being nice', but they are mistaken. We spend a lot of time with strangers, so why not enjoy it? We probably spend at least three-fourths of our time in very short encounters with people, in chance encounters. This way of relating to people, then, is very important. Why buy hostility with your groceries? Be friendly with the checker and the stock clerk! Antagonism against each other only saps the energy that could and should be directed against the systems of power that oppress us.”
― Simeon Wade, Foucault in California [A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death]

“When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.”
― Marcel Proust, Jean Santeuil

“Humanity can never achieve perfection, but it can be beautiful, herein lies our consolation. - On Our Destiny”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Aether

“It's like Eldridge Kestenbaum always says - you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."
"Horse manure catches more flies than honey and vinegar put together," retorted Mark.”
― Gordon Korman, Radio Fifth Grade

“People pleasers can give from dawn to dusk, but they rarely accept help, even when they're sick." Author, V J SMITH, BEING NICE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH BARNES AND NOBE NOOK BOOKS”
― V J Smith, TASTY CHILI RECIPES

“There are people who are going to expect you to always give in the extra mile, be the better one, be nice always. Those are not your people. Your people are the ones who will tell you to remove toxic individuals from your life, remove toxic friendships and relationships from your life, and break someone's car door window (and they'll help you do it too). Those are your people.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“How did you know?" She asked.

"About cookies?" I frowned, thankful for the subject change.

She nodded. I could lie. But it was Christmas and my sister did say to be nice.

So, even though, I knew I'd regret it later, I leaned in and whispered in her ear, "Day one, the first day you were here, you snuck cookies into your room. Day two, you did the same thing." I hesitated. "Whose stash do you think you keep stealing, hmmm little thief?"

- Dante and Ella, A Very Mafia Christmas”
― Rachel Van Dyken

“they have two sets of opinions. they've got the opinions that they actually feel, and they've got the opinions that they know they can express in public... it used to be the case that they were the same.”
― Andrew Doyle

“Just because I say hi doesn't mean that I want to sleep with you I'm just trying to be nice.”
― Alcurtis Turner

“You're extra nice. With everyone. You go out of your way to make everyone feel special."
"Well, what's wrong with that?"
"How is anyone supposed to know when they are special? How was I supposed to know you weren't just being nice?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“...nice doesn't cost you a thing.”
― Annabeth Albert, Lumber Jacked