Top 91 Small Acts Quotes
#1. Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
Carly Fiorina
#2. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay ... small acts of kindness and love.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#3. I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.
Chris Abani
#4. Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humanity has always been saved by small acts; the ones where someone gained a piece of their own puzzle, not the ones where a hero stood prodigious on a battlefield.
Sarah Noffke
#5. Service-based leadership is a mindset: you work for your people. It is not complex; often it's the small acts of service that have the greatest impact on morale and camaraderie.
Courtney Lynch
#6. Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.
Hippolyte Taine
#7. Much of history turns out to be the consequence of small acts of fortune, accident or luck, good or bad.
Phil Mason
#8. Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.
Misha Collins
#10. The cramped harsh world he portrays is a paradoxically eloquent assertion of the importance of what is so strikingly absent from it: small acts of kindness.
Robert Chandler
#11. Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.
Cory Booker
#12. Our small acts of faith and service are how most of us can continue in God and eventually bring eternal light and glory to our family, our friends, and our associates.
Neill F. Marriott
#13. Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#14. The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect
Jacques Barzun
#15. Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
Dan Ariely
#16. Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless
M.G. Wells
#17. Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.
Lori Gottlieb
#18. When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people.
Jens Stoltenberg
#19. We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
Howard Zinn
#20. Mainly, she lived. She got on with the small acts of life. She continued to ensure that - in the phrase she always used inside her own head - she got away with it. No one found her out.
Maggie O'Farrell
#21. Let love flow out of you in big and small acts of kindness. Love is kindness with its work clothes on.
Annette Vaillancourt
#22. Make daily small deposits ... Our lives are defined by small acts of greatness.
Steve Gutzler
#23. Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved.
Maggie O'Farrell
#24. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can change the world.
Howard Zinn
#25. Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#26. I often find myself grateful for the comfort of strangers; a man who gave up his seat for me on the bus, a woman who helped me out with a heavy shopping bag. Remembering small acts of kindness puts the world in a finer, sweeter order.
Sally Brampton
#27. Be an example of small acts of kindness; help someone in need.
Debasish Mridha
#28. The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will.
Bryant McGill
#29. I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." ~ Gandalf (J. R. R. Tolkein ~ The Hobbit)
J.R.R. Tolkien
#30. In such a way is freedom of thought lost ... By small cuts. By small acts of disapproval. By a thousand discouragements of spirit.
Alexander McCall Smith
#31. The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.
Confucius
#32. We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
Harold S. Kushner
#33. Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.
Robin Hobb
#34. It seems to me it would do us all good to act from our heart more often. We'll be surprised how small acts of attention and kindness can release the energy, enthusiasm, and imagination bottled up in our overstressed minds and bodies.
Tim Ryan
#35. Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.
Rick Warren
#36. Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.
Robin Sharma
#37. So the small things came into their own: small acts of helping others, if one could; small ways of making one's own life better: acts of love, acts of tea, acts of laughter. Clever people might laugh at such simplicity, but, she asked herself, what was their own solution?
Alexander McCall Smith
#38. This is what true love is about, the Rebbe told Sharfstein. "It's the small acts that you do on a daily basis that turn two people from a 'you and I' into an 'us.'" Sharfstein
Joseph Telushkin
#39. Karma operates not so much as some external credit-and-debit ledger but more as an energy, a charge that grows over time. This is how even small acts of generosity, especially when motivated by the best intention, can become causes for much greater wealth in the future.
David Michie
#40. There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love
Mother Teresa
#41. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
Victor Hugo
#42. Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. " 'Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.
Raymond E. Feist
#43. The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.
Tom Rath
#44. That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.
Bellamy Young
#45. In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what's expected of you or required of you.
Cory Booker
#46. Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.
Lewis Carroll
#47. The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
Frederick William Robertson
#48. We must never forget that our small, daily acts can total a great sum of love. They can be the stars by which others find their way through the dark voyage of life.
Jamie Langston Turner
#49. What would be the cumulative effect of millions of small, compassionate acts performed daily by us because of our heartfelt Christian love for others? Over time this would have a transformative effect upon all of our Heavenly Father's children through the extension of His love to them through us.
M. Russell Ballard
#51. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.
Libba Bray
#52. Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.
Cory Booker
#53. Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts
Adam Braun
#54. Small unexpected acts of kindness are the building blocks of greatness. Start your day with a smile and see where it takes you ...
Edwin Lionel Flynn
#56. You select the colors of your thoughts; drab or bright, weak or strong, good or bad. You select the colors of your emotions; discordant or harmonious, harsh or quiet, weak or strong. You select the colors of your acts; cold or warm, fearful or daring, small or big.
Wilferd Peterson
#57. Don't wish ... DO! Don't try ... BE! Don't think ... KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?
T.F. Hodge
#58. Lunchtime choices are small, subtle public acts that allow you to set yourself apart within the restrictive office environment.
Harry Wallop
#59. Many people believe they have found the key to Heaven's gate, not realizing that there is no key hole. It is a barrier upon which you must knock. And I believe that it is by our small and simple acts of kindness that we find the gate left ajar.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#60. One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
#61. We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.
Bill Richardson
#62. Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.
Matthew Kelly
#63. Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#64. The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention.
Laurence Sterne
#65. Never underestimate the impact of a small act.
Tory Burch
#66. Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.
Dalai Lama
#67. Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game ... about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.
Dean Smith
#68. I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.
Liam Neeson
#70. Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao-Tzu
#71. Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.
Amit Ray
#72. Minister every day. Opportunities are all around you. Look for them. Ask the Lord to help you recognize them. You will find that most consist of small, sincere acts that help others become followers of Jesus Christ.
David L. Beck
#73. Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.
Elizabeth Bowen
#74. The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.
Jane Hirshfield
#75. The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.
Jennifer James
#76. Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.
Marian Wright Edelman
#77. I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.
Steve Almond
#78. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#79. Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.
Cory Booker
#80. Even a small, everyday lie is a clue to the personality and preoccupations of the liar, like a dream or any other confection of the mind, that is half-conscious and half-unconscious, as all creative acts must be.
Helen McCloy
#81. The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass ... all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God's Goodness.
Francis De Sales
#82. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.
Daisaku Ikeda
#83. The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline
it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#84. Put your heart into even the smallest seemingly insignificant acts possible. Then be patient enough for the universe to give back to you what you reap.
Matthew Donnelly
#85. Missing from such histories are the countless small actions of unknown people that led up to those great moments. When we understand this, we can see that the tiniest acts of protest in which we engage may become the invisible roots of social change.
Howard Zinn
#86. Acts of violence
Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death
and the meaninglessness of killing.
Dag Hammarskjold
#87. All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.
Roy Peter Clark
#88. Small talk acts like your toothpaste that helps combat this process with good conversational hygiene. Here
Jack Steel
#89. A small act is worth a million thoughts.
Ai Weiwei
#90. It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom ... So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving ... help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow ... from small but deliberate deeds!
Spencer W. Kimball
#91. When one is altering the face of the universe one cannot remember small helpful acts.
Alice Foote MacDougall
