Small Kindnesses Quotes:

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

- Richard Paul Evans

source: FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Sep 19, 2011

topic: Kindness, Small Kindnesses, Payoff

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

source: 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

topic: Life, Family, Smile, Acts Of Kindness, Random Acts Of Kindness

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

- Aesop

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Making A Difference In The World, Joy Happiness

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

- Margaret Cho

topic: Kindness, Suicidal, Reality, Kindness Generosity, Generosity And Giving

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

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Social Good, Kindness Generosity

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Kindness, Payoff, Small Kindnesses

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

- Wendy Mass

topic: Inspirational, Life, Kindness, Inspirational Bullying, Kind Person

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

- Scott Adams

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Kindness, Empathy, Ripple, Kindness Generosity

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

source: "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Importunate, Nobody Cares

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

- Robert Breault

topic: Appreciation, Causes, Compliment, Small Kindnesses

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

topic: Kindness, Importance, Small Kindnesses

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

topic: Kindness, Thinking, Magic, Small Kindnesses

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

- Charlotte Gray

topic: Kindness, Achievement, Wasted Life, Small Kindnesses

If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

- Sarah Doudney

topic: Kindness, May, Way, Small Kindnesses