More Kindness Needed

“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977); comic actor, filmmaker, writer

Do the small deeds

“Each of us can look back upon someone who made a great difference in our lives, someone whose wisdom or simple acts of caring made an impression upon us. In all likelihood it was someone who sought no recognition for their deed other than the joy of knowing that, by their hand, another's life had been made better.”

Stephen M. Wolf (born 1941); American businessman

Practice Courtesy for a Better World

“Courtesy is really nothing more than a form of friendliness. It is amazing what a warming influence it can have on an otherwise dreary world. It has been said that a rise of one degree Fahrenheit in the mean annual temperature of the globe would free both polar regions from their ice. It is thrilling to contemplate what frigidity might be dispelled in the world of human relations if people made just a little better effort to be friendly.”

–M. Barton

Simple Virtues Better Than Smartness

“The simple virtues of willingness, readiness, alertness, and courtesy will carry a man farther than mere smartness.”

--Davidson

Courtesy Pleases All

"Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of the pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and him that receives, and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed."

--Erastus Wiman