Quotes about Being Nice

May you find inspiration and encouragement in these quotes about being nice. Some of these Being Nice quotes praise kindness and "niceness," while others are humorous or cynical.

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.
- Lillie Langtry

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog.
No matter how successful you are, you always think,
No one's being nice enough to me!
- Kate Beckinsale

Everyone for the most part is really nice.
There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight.
You can't make everyone completely happy.
- Tina Yothers

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.
- Fay Weldon

I'd much rather be famous for being a fabulous bitch
than being, She does that nice wife really well.
- Christine Baranski

I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up,
and I haven't changed my music one iota.
It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you.
- Ben Folds

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It's no good being nice and young and naive.
There's no good in that at all.
You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick.
And you can't look for sympathy either.
- Johnny Rotten

It's all about people.
It's about networking and being nice to people
and not burning any bridges.
Your book is going to impress,
but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.
- Mike Davidson

The only difference between me and others
is that they think they can change something with cute little poems,
nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
- Henry Rollins

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people,
and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers,
and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other.
And that's all the advice I can give.
- Catherine Zeta-Jones

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
- William Feather

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.
- Robert Kirkman

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
- Tucker Carlson

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
- Henry A. Kissinger

I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.
- Max Weinberg

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George Will

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
- Iris Murdoch

But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.
- Joel Hodgson

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
- Doug Larson

Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice.
- Ron Wood

It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.
- Andreas Katsulas

I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.
- Johnny Vegas

But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?
- Fisher Stevens

My two favorite things about being a pro player are Sunday afternoons being able to excite many fans and the money because I get to treat my family and friends and myself to nice things.
- Dante Hall

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.
- Henny Youngman

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.
- Lawrence Welk

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.
- Humphrey Carpenter

My first four roles were all nice guys, Raggedy Man being one of them.
- Eric Roberts

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.
- Isabelle Huppert

I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.
- Tommy Shaw

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
- Dirk Benedict

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.
- Annette Bening

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
- Rachel True

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.
- Robert Wyatt

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.
- Henry Fonda

Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.
- Anthony LaPaglia

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.
- Brett Favre

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.
- Bob Geldof

It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.
- Christopher Meloni

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.
- Neil Jordan

Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.
- Carmen Electra

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.
- Ryan Phillippe

I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.
- Christopher Meloni

I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such.
- Jeremy Bulloch

It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
- Garth Ennis

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.
- John Corbett

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.
- Eric Idle

When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Today is my day to honor my being,
release each and every struggle,
gather strength from life's storms,
relax into the arms of spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho

At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell

May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery

Honor your being,
Release each and every struggle,
Gather strength from life's storms,
Relax into the arms of spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank

Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being angry harms your physical,
emotional, and spiritual well-being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I look only to the good qualities of men.
Not being faultless myself,
I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo

As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Even the rich are hungry for love,
for being cared for, for being wanted,
for having someone to call their own.
- Mother Teresa

May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
May your essence be the nectar of the open blossom of your joy.
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie