Thoughtfulness Quotes

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

  Confucius

  Would Be, Standards, One Word

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

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Real, Self

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

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

  Harold S. Kushner

  Small Acts, Done, World

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• 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

  Love, Heart, Littles

  Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company

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

  Willard F. Harley

  Emotional, Feelings, Important

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• 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

  Friendship, People, Energy

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.23, Sophia Institute Press

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• Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for his heart was meek and he always thought of others. Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Art, Thoughtful

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• 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

  Family, Friends, Children

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• 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

  Thoughtful, Suffering, Way

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• I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech or as wealthy as we would like, but in a world of varied talents and fortunes that we can't always command, I think that makes even more attractive the qualities we can command--such qualities as thoughtfulness, patience, a kind word, and true delight in the accomplishment of another. These cost us nothing, and they can mean everything to the one who receives them.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Beautiful, Witty, School

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• People wait for the big moment, the great event, and forget that happiness comes from building steadily on the small daily things of life. People wait for that special moment to express love and forget that love springs from thoughtfulness practised every day. People wait, but waiting is future and NOW is always the time.

  Meher Baba

  Spring, People, Waiting

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• 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

  Kindness, Hunger For Love, People

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Thoughtful, Color

  1851-3 The Stones ofVenice, vol.ii, ch.5.

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• Each of us is responsible for creating an environment of warmth and consideration for those we love. I have always tried to define a good day not in terms of one in which all things were made right and comfortable for me but rather, as a day in which I have been able to make another's day more loving and special for them. We must treat each other with dignity. Not because we merit it but because we grow best in thoughtfulness.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love You, Good Day, Creating

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• Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Moving, Modern Life, Life Is

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.15, Penguin

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

  Jim Carrey

  Kind, Stupidest

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

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• 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

  Appreciation, Causes, Misery

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.260, Transaction Publishers

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• 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

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Mar 10, 2017

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• You can never err by treating everyone in the building with respect, thoughtfulness, and a kind word. Everyone of our employees is an essential employee. Every one of them wants to be viewed that way. And if you treat them that way, they will view you that way. They will not let you down or let you fail. They will accomplish whatever you have put in front of them.

  Colin Powell

  Views, Essentials, Want

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

  Diana Vreeland

  Thinking, Manners

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• 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

  Reading, Thinking, Addresses

  Source: ncac.org

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• Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Sleep, Past, Opportunity

  Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

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• To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.

  Robert Kirkman

  Character, Zombie, World

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• Civility means a great deal more than just being nice to one another. It is complex and encompasses learning how to connect successfully and live well with others, developing thoughtfulness, and fostering effective self-expression and communication. Civility includes courtesy, politeness, mutual respect, fairness, good manners, as well as a matter of good health. Taking an active interest in the well-being of our community and concern for the health of our society is also involved in civility.

  P. M. Forni

  Respect, Nice, Communication

  "Einstein Was a Mensch" by David Sable, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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

  Ellen Goodman

  News, Amphetamines, World

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