In such situations, we have to look deeply within ourselves and decide if compromising our manners might be worth it for the sake of another person.

FORBES: 5 Times When It's Okay To Break The Rules

Our employees, our colleagues, and our customers judge us by how we look, how we dress, our table manners, our grooming, and sometimes even how we do our job.

FORBES: You Are Judged by Your Appearance

Though we avoid looking directly at prisons, they seep obliquely into our fashions and manners.

NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

But though it may be a mission as futile as Sisyphus', I feel bound to protest when I discover new lows in inexorable degradation of our sensibility, manners, idealism and common sense.

NPR: New Lows In TV Advertising

So the courtesy and simple good manners of more old-fashioned letter-forms are restored to our correspondence.

BBC: A Point of View: Mourning the loss of the written word