Courtesy is the lubricant of daily life and conversation. It's a set of general moral guidelines that allow strangers to get along easily without requiring extended periods of getting to know each other.
Hello, excuse me, please, thank you; and so on. The handful of general courtesies is all that is required to breeze through normal interactions with your bus driver, your store clerk, the guy you accidentally bumped into on the elevator and a hundred other people who you interact with on a daily basis.
The alternative is to simply be miserable all of the time. The person you hurt the most by being discourteous, is yourself. Walk around being rude and obnoxious and you will get bad service, you will get pushed back, you will get treated as bad as you treat everyone else.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone. This dynamic is just as relevant to courteous behavior. How you treat other people will effect how you are treated.
What you should be asking is why wouldn't you be courteous? What exactly is the alternative? Be a jerk and get treated like one in return? all the time? There's simply no point.
Using courtesy and common sense at all times
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Using courtesy and common sense at all times.
Using courtesy and common sense at all times
Using courtesy and common sense at all times
Using courtesy and common sense at all times
Using courtesy and common sense at all times
Courtesy is politeness and respect shown to others in accordance with customary practices. Courtesy is part of good manners, and is based on the qualities of graciousness and consideration for another's feelings and beliefs.Courtesy is sometimes displayed as the result of conscious thought on the matter.Sometimes courtesy maybe manifested as an automatic response to a certain situation. In this case such an action could be called an 'habitual courtesy,' the result of training and practice of good manners.In countries/cultures where courtesy is normal and expected, 'habitual courtesy' is widespread.In environments were courtesy may be less common, a considerate action by a person who regularly shows courtesy to others could be described as being performed according to his or her 'habitual courtesy.'Example of usage:"Michael Foot treated all us new Bennite MPs with his habitual courtesy, but warily." -Guardian Newspaper, UK, March 3, 2010----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------See Related links below for more information.
As a courtesy to Joe, I picked up his laundry. Would you count these papers as a courtesy to the teacher? As a courtesy to others, please turn off your cell phone in the restaurant. 'Courtesy to' is correct.
Yes, the noun 'courtesy' is an abstract noun, a word for a behavior or an attitude.
Courtesy is politeness. His courtesy won him friends.
This practice will have the child immediately removed from the next room, courtesy of child protective services.