Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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.
Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
I've been successful in different areas, but nothing brings a smile to my face more than my oldest son, Zaire, and my second son, Zion, saying the kind word of 'Dad.'
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.