The smallest act of kindness
by Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Related topics: Inspirational Compassion Kindness Action
Sayings by Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde 
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
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Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
A mask tells us more than a face.
- Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't
understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing
ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever
to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Smallest Sayings
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
Act Sayings
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love is an act of faith,
and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
I Act with Bold Courage.
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Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Loving is the most unmitigated
and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Honor, Choose, Celebrate, Dream, Act, Relax
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Act the way you'd like to be
and soon you'll be the way you act.
- Leonard Cohen
A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Choose wisely - then act decisively. Do it today!
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It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
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When will our consciences grow so tender
that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande
To live a satisfying life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
To be courageous is to act in the face of fear.
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This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.
To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill
Kindness Sayings
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
Affirmation:
Today I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa
Today, I choose the higher road -
the path of charity, acceptance, love, selflessness, kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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