A Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

Jean de la Bruyere

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Jean de la Bruyere
French - Philosopher
1645 - 1696

If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

Guy Kawasaki

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Jean de la Bruyere

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

Publilius Syrus

When anyone in Washington asks for a favor, no matter how little the favor means to you, act pained and get as much as you can in exchange - even if the person asking is the president of the United States.

Bob Beckel

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

Bertrand Russell

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

Phyllis Schlafly

It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.

Frederick Lenz

This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.

Gary Zukav

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

John Churton Collins

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Publilius Syrus

A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".

Yuri Manin

A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little less frown, A little less kicking, A man while he's down, A little more "We", A little less "I", A little more laugh, A little less cry, A little more flowers, On the pathway of life, And fewer on graves, At the end of the strife.