“It’s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.”
Addison Walker
Consider the lilies of the field… Matt 6:28
Consider the lilies of the field… Matt 6:28
“It’s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.”
Addison Walker
thedailylily.com 
This is a very profound statement and a measuring line to try to live by. With some of the definition of ‘nice’ meaning: polite, kind, respectable, virtuous and well-bred, I can see that in all situations (even in confrontational)and with all interpersonal interactions it would be wise to behave accordingly. Otherwise ‘I’m’ the loser, there’s no witness for Christ and no fruit of the Spirit. Thanks for this thought..it’s a catching phrase that sticks in the mind…..’nice guys are winners’
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NICE GUY?? I don’t know, Gary. You exhort us to be nice. That’s a tall order. In my dictionary NICE can mean: attentive, conscientious, detailed, discriminating, exact, fastidious, good, kind, meticulous, pleasant, right and tasteful. Wow! No wonder Addsion Walker said that “nice guys are already winners.” Sounds a lot like JESUS to me!
With the word nice in part meaning well-bred, do you think it is possible or would it be easy to be nice if one was not well-bred?
I don’t think it would be easy to be nice without being well-bred if you look at the definition of well-bred as ‘refined’:
‘to free from moral imperfection : ELEVATE;
to free from what is coarse, vulgar, or uncouth;
to become pure or perfected;
to make improvement by introducing subtleties or distinctions’
How could one be nice AND have poor and/or impure morals towards someone else? Also, coarse and vulgar n=behavior towards another would not be nice either.