Small Acts Of Kindness Quotes

• A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

  Amelia Earhart

  Kindness, Spring, Compassion

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• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Aesop (1963). “Aesop's fables”, Cliffs Notes

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  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Prayer, Powerful

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• Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

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• No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

  Amelia Earhart

  Spiritual, Kindness, Spring

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• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p.52), 1990.

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• The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Kindness, Small Acts

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• No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.

  Amelia Earhart

  Roots, Action, Kind

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Smile, God, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.289, Image

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• The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

  Amelia Earhart

  Kindness, Roots, Doe

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• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Funny, Women

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  That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

  Scott Adams

  Inspirational, Kindness, Small Acts

  "A Kind Word". DNRC Newsletter #9, December 1995.

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• Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p. 52), 1990.

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Thankful, Appreciation

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

  Humphry Davy

  Life, Family, Smile

  Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.448

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• We pardon to the extent that we love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Forgiveness, Pardon Me

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 330, 1678.

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• The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Kindness, Ordinary, Human Nature

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

  Carol Burnett

  Kindness, Selfish, Helping Others

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  But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world, and there's incredible acts of kindness and bravery and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

  Dave Matthews

  Beautiful, Kindness, Giving

  "Dave Matthews On His Band's 'Unique Sort Of Love Affair'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 8, 2012.

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• The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

  Aesop

  Success, Kindness, Congratulations

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