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
Pioneering Act Of Kindness quotations
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

No Act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.


Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.
My wish for you is that you continue.
Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love.

That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
We believe America is practicing all kinds of terrorism against Libya.
Even the accusation that we are involved in terrorism is in itself an act of terrorism.
Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another.
If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.
You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world.
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
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.

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives.
But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.
People will never forget how you made them feel.

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.
It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.
Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

If we serve Jesus then every act & thought has meaning.
Acts of kindness aren't just niceties, they become acts of worship.
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.