Small Kindness Quotes

#1. Each small kindness given or received is evidence that life is worthwhile.

Donald Altman

#2. They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right path.

Scott Farris

#3. A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?

Jacqueline Carey

#4. Friendships grow from small acts of kindness

Dorothy Koomson

#5. There is no small act of kindness.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#6. Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.

Misha Collins

#7. Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#8. 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

#9. Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Laozi

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise.

Erika Johansen

#15. Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

Carl Rakosi

#16. The Stoic makes no differentiation between a small act of kindness by a simple person and a great act of virtue from a learned sage. Virtue is virtue, and in both cases the result is happiness for the one who is virtuous.

Marcus Aurelius

#17. 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

#18. 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 the comfort.

Humphy Davy

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

Victor Hugo

#20. I know it's crazy, but I'm holding tight to the idea that a small act of kindness can have real resonance.

Blake Crouch

#21. Do not cast your boat on a river of tears, cried the tearing wind. Small hands are still, be still. She knelt then lay on her side, clutching a key, accepting kindness of endless sleep.

Patti Smith

#22. I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Liam Neeson

#23. Gratitude makes the world a softer, kinder place. It softens that brittle shell of defence. There is always something to be grateful for, no matter how small or simple.

Janey Colbourne

#24. Maybe you have thought that doing ... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."

Joe J. Christensen

#25. But a note had had been prepared and left for her, written in the very style to touch
a small mixture of reproach with a great deal of kindness

Jane Austen

#26. A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

Roy Bennett

#27. Forgiveness is the way we return what has been taken from us and restore the love and kindness and trust that has been lost. With each act of forgiveness, whether small or great, we move toward wholeness. Forgiveness is nothing less than how we bring peace to ourselves and our world.

Desmond Tutu

#28. I have noticed that most times, the least that you give out is the best that someone really needs. So, don't always wait till you have something big to give before you do so! Someone's "big" is your "little"!

Israelmore Ayivor

#29. Share your heart for a small act of kindness.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#30. Let love flow out of you in big and small acts of kindness. Love is kindness with its work clothes on.

Annette Vaillancourt

#31. When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

Plutarch

#32. His expression went cold and dark as he came within inches from her, towering over her small frame. His voice was calm but stern. "Let me be clear before we begin our working relationship. I am not kind nor do I, or will I ever, offer anything out of sheer kindness.

Madison Thorne Grey

#33. Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.

M.A.Kelty

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless

M.G. Wells

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

Scott Adams

#38. I sat there in the darkness, with their skin clsoe to me, and I felt lifted up and wrapped with kindness. And very small, because I didn't deserve this, but small the way a mouse in its den is small: warm and safe and protected.

Emily Horner

#39. How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway ... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

Anne Frank

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

George R R Martin

#43. The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#44. Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

Charlotte Gray

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

Aesop

#46. Yet how often is it that we are rescued by a stranger, if ever at all? And how is it that our lives can become drained of the possibility of forgiveness and kindness - so drained that even one small act of mercy becomes a potent lifelong memory? How do our lives reach these points?

Douglas Coupland

#47. There is no small act of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#48. Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

Vasily Grossman

#49. 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

#50. I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.

Roland Merullo

#51. 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

#52. You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

David Rockefeller

#53. Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

Emily Giffin

#54. Be an example of small acts of kindness; help someone in need.

Debasish Mridha

#55. 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

#56. A small unkindness is a great offence.

Hannah More

#57. A small amount of kindness can make a large amount of difference

J. Yates

#58. Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.

Amit Ray

#59. 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

#60. How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!

Anne Frank

#61. LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. Let yourself rediscover peace in your heart. And, from that secure place, meet whatever comes.

Stephanie Dowrick

#62. It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

Charles De Lint

#63. The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.

Anne Rice

#64. How easily we ignore or forget the small kindnesses and considerations in life which are really the only everyday magic we witness on a regular basis. Just think- to make happiness out of nothing more than a few kind words or a generous gesture.

Jonathan Carroll

#65. Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

Cory Booker

#66. Love, no matter how small, begets kindness.
Joy, no matter how small, begets cheerfulness.
Wisdom, no matter how small, begets intelligence.
Faith, no matter how small, begets persistence.
Genius, no matter how small, begets excellence.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#67. 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

#68. Mma Ramotswe was right: evil repaid with retribution, with punishment, had achieved half its goal; evil repaid with kindness was shown to be what it really was, a small, petty thing, not something frightening at all, but something pitiable, a paltry affair.

Alexander McCall Smith

#69. Every small good deed counts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#70. There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.

Robert Breault

#71. 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

#72. I caught myself feeling that vile need for others to be grateful to us, to show themselves as small and dependent, because that is what creates our favor, nurtures it, and heightens the importance of our deeds and kindness.

Mesa Selimovic

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

Aesop

#74. We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Helen Simonson

#75. Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in the world. Kindness, can change the lives of people.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#76. Will had shrugged once, helplessly. He had almost wished Jem would be angry with him. It would have been easier. He'd never felt so small within himself as he did when he faced Jem's expansive kindness.

Cassandra Clare

#77. Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

Robin Hobb

#78. One of the worst things about losing my mother at the age I did was how very much there was to regret. Small things that stung now: all the times I'd scorned her kindness by rolling my eyes or physically recoiled in response to her touch;

Cheryl Strayed

#79. Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about.

Tom Baker

#80. It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change.

Ursula K. Le Guin