A few motivational quotes about manners.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
Algernon Sidney

Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.
Unknown

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
Bennett Cerf

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
E.V. Lucas

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Alfred P. Sloan

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
Bryant H. McGill

Beware of a man with manners.
Eudora Welty

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
Anthony Trollope

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Honore de Balzac

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Horace Mann

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Benjamin Disraeli

You can get through life with bad manners, but it’s easier with good manners.
Lillian Gish

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Randall Jarrell

You lose your manners when you are poor.
Lillian Hellman

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.
Sir John Vanbrugh

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Cesare Pavese

After I read different quotes on fashion in the process of collecting them for this site; fashion looked like a funny, interesting thing. People have said a lot about it, here are a few selected ones.

A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent.  A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein

Fashions fade; style is eternal.
Yves Saint Laurent

I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn’t itch.
Gilda Radner

Fashion is a social agreement — the result of a consensus of a large group of people.
Stella Blum

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don’t follow fashion or understand trends.
Meryl Streep

The finest clothing made is a person’s skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Mark Twain

When in doubt, wear red.
Bill Blass

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
Françoise Sagan

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.
Janice Dickinson

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher

Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal

Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.
Bettina Ballard

Kindness is always fashionable.
Amelia E. Barr

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Moliere

Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.
Achille Maramotti

Bravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
Pope Benedict XVI

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Nicolas de Chamfort

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
E. T. Bell

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
Golda Meir

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
Queen Marie of Romania

Fashion is more about feel than science.
Pharrell Williams

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.
Janice Dickinson

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
Marlene Dietrich

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.
Lillian Hellman

I like to play dress up, I’m in love with fashion.
Fantasia Barrino

Here are some selected inspirational and motivational quotes about achievement. It was hard for me not to get inspired and a bit motivated also by these beautiful quotes by some great people. Tell us what do you feel about these quotes by commenting.

“I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Carl Jung

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.
Edward William Bok

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Unknown

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill

The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all – doing nothing.
Benjamin Franklin

Aviation is proof that given the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Zig Ziglar

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Abraham Lincoln

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
Bo Bennett

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya Angelou

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone

Big thinking precedes great achievement.
Wilferd A. Peterson

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Powell Clayton

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
Edgar Lee Masters

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
Nathaniel Branden

Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
Katharine Anthony

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Nicholas M. Butler

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.
Michael Korda

The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.
Mack R. Douglas

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
Mack R. Douglas

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student’s achievement.
James S. Coleman

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
George Washington Carver

People may doubt what you say but they will believe what you do.
Lewis Cass

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
Frank A. Clark

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis. D. Brandeis

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
David Livingstone

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor

We were born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau

To get what you want; stop doing what isn’t working.
Dennis Weaver

We will either find a way, or make one.
Hannibal

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
Dale Carnegie

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Denis Waitley

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Henry Drummond

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
Candace Bushnell

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
Loretta Young

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Denis Waitley

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Claude M. Bristol

It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
David Feherty

Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.
Susan Taylor

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Jack Kinder

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Napoleon Hill

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John D. Rockefeller

The future is not a gift – it is an achievement.
Harry Lauder

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjöld

I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.
Jean-Claude Kelly

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Helen Keller

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost

Here are some quotes on divorce. Have a read.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.
Margaret Atwood

I don’t see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
Catherine Deneuve

A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.
Marvin Mitchelson

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire

Ah, yes, divorce… from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Tertullian

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.
Gerald F. Lieberman

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Rita Mae Brown

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.
Dan Dailey

My mother always said don’t marry for money, divorce for money.
Wendy Liebman

When people divorce, it’s always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.
Monica Bellucci

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Helen Rowland

Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
French Proverb

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
Sumner Redstone

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.
Annette Funicello

You know, that’s the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
Clare Boothe Luce

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

When two divorced people marry, four people get into bed.
Jewish Proverb

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there`s less of you.
Margaret Atwood

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
Will Rogers

Improvement, an important part of life, without which life will become completely static. See what some famous people have said about it.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.
Geddy Lee

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isn’t.
Don Williams, Jr

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.
James Cash Penney

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
Hugh Blair

Practice without improvement is meaningless.
Chuck Knox

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
Pierre de Coubertin

I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.
Sylvia Kristel

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
Kim Collins

Improvement begins with I.
Arnold H. Glasow

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.
Marilu Henner

Mathematicians are like managers – they want improvement without change.
Edsger Dijkstra

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.
Donald Norman

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.
James Allen

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

Where there is movement, there is improvement.
Rick Helders

The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement.
Unknown

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Maxwell Maltz

All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest Hemingway

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Robert Browning Hamilton

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
Maximilien Robespierre

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that’s not really there.
Donna Tartt

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
Louis Kronenberger

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Samuel Butler

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Bishop Robert South

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France

Every life is march from innocence,through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.
Mason Cooley

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats

It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
Mignon McLaughlin

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
Irving Howe

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance.
A proverb

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.
José Bergamín

We each begin in innocence.We all become guilty.
Leonard F. Peltier