Quotes About Thoughtfulness

#1. Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

#3. From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.

Bellamy Young

#4. Thoughtfulness begins with seeing. My job as a photographer is to make that seeing easier. What we appreciate, what fascinates us, we will strive to preserve.

Mattias Klum

#5. Can anyone be utterly without thoughtfulness? The answer is yes.

Philip Roth

#6. In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

Ellen Goodman

#7. Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

Julia Alvarez

#8. I've made the commitment to Canadians that I'm going to stay myself, and I'm going stay open about it, and I'm going to make sure that the thoughtfulness with which I approach issues continues to shine through.

Justin Trudeau

#9. We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.

James McGreevey

#10. What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

Noam Chomsky

#11. If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

Confucius

#12. But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness ...

Christopher Paolini

#13. She continued to look out the window for a moment, her humanity and thoughtfulness tucked away inside a tight frown, an honest brushstroke in a boring painting.

Joseph Fink

#14. The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event ... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us ... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#15. Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith's quest for truth.

Douglas John Hall

#16. Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.

Edgar Cayce

#17. The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.

Charles Horton Cooley

#18. A student was given a mentoring opportunity, in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

Thomas Hughes

#19. Gold and diamonds are not out there it is inside your mind.
You can create it with thoughtfulness and becoming kind.

Debasish Mridha

#20. It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic realities. It has dramatized environmentalism's descent into infantilism.

George Will

#21. I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.

Trent Reznor

#22. When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

Edwin Booth

#23. The happiness, the thoughtfulness, the humor was part of her, but it was also deliberate, a conscious choice.

Kim Holden

#24. Leading people to praise God involves energy, intentionality, and thoughtfulness.

Bob Kauflin

#25. There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!

Calvin Coolidge

#26. Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

Gautama Buddha

#27. An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

James Vila Blake

#28. My heart is manoeuvring in rings of trembling darkness and unreasonable echoes of over-thoughtfulness.

Virginia Woolf

#29. There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Mother Teresa

#30. John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.

Alfie Kohn

#31. Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.

Pearl Zhu

#32. There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.

Jim Carrey

#33. If you want to make friends, go out of your way to do things for other people
things that require time, energy, unselfishness, and thoughtfulness.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#34. We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

Harold S. Kushner

#35. Meeting important emotional needs creates the feeling of love, but thoughtfulness keeps it alive.

Willard F. Harley

#36. Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

Thomas Huxley

#37. The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'

Zig Ziglar

#38. The thoughtfulness and goodwill messages from loved ones brighten my Christmas day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. As you celebrate your special day I hope you are showered with priceless gifts of love, thoughtfulness, friendships, family, laughter and good times. These are just a few simple presents that money can't buy and that you absolutely deserve! Happy Birthday!

Carlos Wallace

#40. Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.

Diana Vreeland

#41. Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness.

Atul Gawande

#42. The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.

Eliot Spitzer

#43. To Amalfitano, Jordi seemed a shy and formal boy. Rosa liked his silence, which she mistook for thoughtfulness when it was really just a symptom of the confusion raging in his head.

Roberto Bolano

#44. Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind.

Dave Willis

#45. Prayer also forms a type of nutrition for self confidence and keeps you free from worry. It connects you with the main Source of positive energy (Almighty) and recharges you throughout the day. It elevates your plain of thoughts and indirectly guides you to think fruitful and useful thoughts.

Sanchita Pandey

#46. If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#47. I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#48. Live a life that you do not need to take a vacation from. Live in a way that makes yearly resolutions unnecessary. Make the kind of choices that leave you Happy and Healthy... where all of your needs are satisfied. Live a life where your only 'wants' are for others to feel as good as you do.

Gary Hopkins

#49. May the pigs of fate fly you safely home.

John Green

#50. Well, enough of this introspection. It's depressing, quite frankly.

Sol Luckman

#51. This is why some relationships look so beautiful and some look so tragic - beauty belongs to the thoughtful; tragedy to the neglectful.

Bryant McGill

#52. Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.

Tahereh Mafi

#53. We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#54. To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further.

Amanda Craig

#55. The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

John Ruskin

#56. There are high places that don't invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take ... I'm giddy with thinking where thinking can't stick.
No Names

Kay Ryan

#57. Never suppress a generous thought.

Camilla Eyring Kimball

#58. Sometimes, the intent is good enough when the action seems impossible.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#59. She counted out five sweets and put them on a saucer. Then she went and put them on the ledge in the cliff to cheer him up.

Tove Jansson

#60. Some questions are more complicated than their answers could be.

Parul Wadhwa

#61. Good manners are not merely snobbish ornaments, as Mrs. Lippett's regime appeared to believe. They mean self-discipline and thought for others, and my children have got to learn them.

Jean Webster

#62. Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things.

Veronica Rossi

#63. We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.

Pittacus Lore

#64. You can tell how often a person thinks of you by how often they tell you they think of you.

Mark W. Boyer

#65. The closest thing to perfection is imperfection

Kamand Kojouri

#66. There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.

Sophocles

#67. My mind is like a little house,
My peers break into.
They rearrange my furniture,
And the cabinets rifle through.
They throw things out;
They put things in,
And erase the writing on the wall,
And by the time that they walk out,
It's not my mind at all.

Margo T. Rose

#68. It is inevitable that I will leave a legacy simply because I cannot walk through life without leaving footprints as I walk. Therefore, I would be wise to consider the path before I make the prints.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#69. Oh, hon, it's the little courtesies that make life bearable, I find, wouldn't you agree?

Andrew Ashling