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Quotes About Thoughtfulness

Listen, re-gifting is fine as long as there is transparency. You just have to be like, 'This is something I got that I couldn't use, and I thought you might like it.'
~ Eric Stonestreet
Thoughtfulness leads to consideration. Consideration leads to feelings. Feelings lead to brotherhood. Brotherhood leads to unity.
~ Sister Souljah
Introverts think carefully before they speak. We can be excellent public speakers because we prepare carefully.
~ Sophia Dembling
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
~ Sophia Loren
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
~ Sophia Loren
When an author took the time and trouble to choose exactly the right words and arrange them in the right order, there was a possibility of genuine communication taking place, the thoughtful writer reaching the thoughtful reader. The opposite of what happened when two people opened their mouths and simply let their half-formed, incoherent thoughts spill out.
~ Sophie Hannah
All the bourgeois virtues, caution, obedience, zeal and thoughtfulness- they all melt away powerless in the fire of the great fateful moment that always demands only genius and forms it into a a lasting image. Contemptuously it repulses the timid man; it, another god of the earth, with fiery arms, lifts only the bold into the heaven of heroes.
~ Stefan Zweig
The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
~ Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Algunos opinaban que a Beppo Barrendero le faltaba algún tornillo. Lo decían porque ante las preguntas se limitaba a sonreír amablemente y no contestaba. Pensaba. Y cuando creía que una respuesta era innecesaria, se callaba. Pero cuando la creía necesaria, pensaba sobre ella.
~ Michael Ende
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
You shouldn't leave your crayon on other people's beds where it can get sat on.
~ Beverly Cleary
Some types of men, Simon, whose minds are very full of thoughts, they are forgetting to speak and act like normal men.
~ Tad Williams
She decided to be quiet for now. There was a Yamani saying: "You need never unsay anything that you did not say in the first place.
~ Tamora Pierce
It had occurred to me I was not courageous, had never been brave, only arrogant or unthinking.
~ Tanith Lee
The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.
~ Julianna Margulies
There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences.
~ Ellen Ullman
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
Read Not to Contradict Or Confute Nor To Believe Or Take For Granted But To Weigh And Consider Oh the side of my high school building
~ Francis Bacon, The Essays
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
~ Frederick William Faber
When we are intentional and thoughtful about our expectations, and things don't turn out how we thought they would, disappointment still hurts. Potentially, a lot. One reason it can sting is precisely because we were vulnerable and asked for what we needed or shared what we were excited about.
~ Brene Brown
I always think 12 times before saying anything.
~ Brenda Blethyn
We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.
~ Henry David Thoreau