Small Acts Quotes Page 2

Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

Don't let small thinking cut your life down to size.

Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

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

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.

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

Begin to do small things in a great way.

..You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater.

A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props, and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly.

A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

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

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.

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

Courtesy is a small act but it packs a mighty wallop.

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.

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

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

Never underestimate the impact of a small act.

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals.

I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

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.

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another: a question concerning a person's family, quick words of encouragement, a sincere compliment, a small note of thanks, a brief telephone call. If we are observant and aware, and if we act on the promptings which come to us, we can accomplish much good.

In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind.

Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

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

Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?

Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.

Cats don't bark and act brave when they see something small in fur or feathers, they kill it. Dogs tend to bravado. They're braggarts. In the great evolutionary drama the dog is Sergeant Bilko, the cat is Rambo.

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.

There is no act too small, no act too bold.

The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.

Small acts of kindness between you and the individuals around you are the germination of hope.

As small, quick, foolproof cameras became generally available, moreover, the camera has been used so much and so flabbily by so many people that it has acted as a sort of contraceptive on the ability to see.

To be honest, I don't see myself acting forever.

I just can't imagine myself being a 70-year-old man fighting for roles. I would love to do small parts in my friends' movies or things that I'm directing myself. I do envision myself behind the camera as I get a little bit older.