Quotes about Thoughtfulness

You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.

Seek not to speak, but that you might have something to say.

To be simple, humble, and thoughtful as we listen to others and help them come to faith in the One who has given us life.

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. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.

I don't say very much I don't really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

What you realize when you work in the philanthropic world is that people aren't just numbers: they are families with real needs and you need to make your judgments with kindness and thoughtfulness in order to serve those needs.

Humility is about the little things in life, and marriage is 90 percent small stuff. We don't build humility on giant gestures as much as forge it with consistent, thoughtful actions day after day.