My 14 Favorite Inspirational Quotes on Kindness, Compassion, and Taking Action:

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. - Marian Wright Edelman

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. - Edmund Burke

Everything is perfect in the universe, including your desire to improve it. - Wayne Dyer

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. - Paulo Freire

Everything you are against weakens you.  Everything you are for empowers you. - Wayne Dyer

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Philo

No one has ever become poor by giving. - Anne Frank

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else. - Peyton Conway March

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. - Theodore Rubin

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. - Wayne Dyer

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. - Viktor Frankl

How far that little candle throws his beams!  So shines a good deed in a weary world. - William Shakespeare

Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail. - Woodrow Wilson