Top 122 Thoughtful Quotes

I’m more thoughtful and aware of how my body feels. I’ve learned the difference of what is just sore from a hard workout or what’s sore from a possible injury.
Kaetlyn Osmond
My favorite video to film was ‘Work It’ because it began the incredible road ahead. Missy was protective and thoughtful of us kids, removing us from the mature scenes and using the clean version when we filmed.
Alyson Stoner
Independent cinema is more thoughtful, delicate. While Western blockbusters can have their own kind of delicateness, it’s not delicate enough. You have to be ready to compromise to enter that field. I will do so only if it’s worth it.
Golshifteh Farahani
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn’t have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn’t have anyone to tell me, ‘You can’t.’
Sandra Lee
People like to think about MPs in very crass terms: you’re either an uber-loyalist babe, or you’re a rebel. There isn’t any grown-up room to be thoughtful. There isn’t space in public debate for that.
Emily Thornberry
We have a lot of thoughtful people in the U.S. Senate.

We have a lot of thoughtful people in the U.S. Senate.
Marco Rubio
I’ve always believed that no subject is off-limits as long as you can find a way to make it significant, thoughtful, and interesting.
Katharine Viner
Every entrepreneur has to deal with hardship, but if we’re tough enough and thoughtful enough, we can find a way to make hard things make us better.
Eric Greitens
I think that making a movie is not just making the movie – it is also about having thoughtful ideas and embracing all the aspects of its launch.
Luca Guadagnino
Our boxing is not like the men’s. It’s more thoughtful, more technical. It’s not just, ‘Get in there and hurt someone.’
Nicola Adams
My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.
Prince William
We are in a world where people are understanding that athletes and entertainers are citizens too. Some of us want to leverage our platform for good, and I want to be someone who is thoughtful and real about trying to influence people in a way that will lead to healthier communities and a better nation.
Maya Moore
I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it’s good to make thoughtful, good choices.
Karen Salmansohn
I want to be represented by people who are thoughtful, self-aware and collaborative. What would a system that elevated such people look like?
George Monbiot
We are very, very thoughtful about once an economic system creates maldistribution of wealth, thinking about how we redistribute it, but we need to pay attention to why that system is excluding people to create that maldistribution in the first place.
Ro Khanna
Leadership is loud. It is quiet. It is thoughtful and emotional and cerebral and nerdy and goofy and joyful and motivating.
Julie Foudy
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
Wendell Willkie
Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough, sweet, angry, thoughtful, demanding – not wistful.
Elliott Abrams
And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden’s mother, I think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother.
Chelsea Clinton
Jim Sheridan, the MP who wants to ban sketchwriters from the Commons for being rude about politicians, is a blithering idiot. Sorry, scrub that – clearly a very thoughtful person with whom I might conceivably disagree on some marginal issues. A blithering savant, perhaps.
Simon Hoggart
Scientists are skeptics. It’s unfortunate that the word ‘skeptic’ has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really, in its pure and original meaning, it’s just thoughtful inquiry.
Michael Shermer
Bill Murray is such a tremendous talent, but the world wasn’t ready for ‘Razor’s Edge,’ for something that thoughtful and with that much depth at that time in his career.
Keegan-Michael Key
Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences.
Jay Parini
My favorite vampire movie used to be Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ but now ’30 Days of Night’ took its place. I think it’s brilliant that somebody would be so thoughtful as to put these vampires in a place like Barrow, Alaska, where there are actually ’30 Days of Night.’
Tech N9ne
You don’t always have to sing dark things to be thoughtful.
Robert Smith
Cory Monteith was a great guy; Funny, deep, thoughtful, and hardworking. In real life, he was the coolest dude, generous, and a great friend to his pals.
Mike O’Malley
The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!
Ashton Kutcher
I love Alton Brown’s show ‘Good Eats,’ about the chemistry of food. It’s really thoughtful.
Ina Garten
We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.
Megan Rapinoe
I always saw myself as this quiet, introspective, thoughtful person.
Maggie Rogers
Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.
Robin S. Sharma
I used to hear on the radio people like Jack Benny or Bob Hope, but I never had any interest in their type of humor. I thought that I could do something more substantially meaningful with significant, thoughtful, analytical reflections on real life situations.
Jackie Mason
Thoughtful financial planning can easily take a backseat to daily life.
Suze Orman
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.
Steven Pinker
There’s no question that women are more risk averse, thoughtful, and deliberative.
Dan Abrams
It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.
Ron Wyden
Managing a business, small or large, today requires an

Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.
Howard Schultz
As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I was writing about her. Everybody had something to say, some of it thoughtful, some of it poorly informed, some of it vividly obscene.
William Finnegan
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on ‘The Leftovers’ are thoughtful, hard working, open people and generous people.
Carrie Coon
My focus is always on the day. What I’ve done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn’t abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it’s all real to me. I’m basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.
Ian MacKaye
Being a skeptical and thoughtful consumer of polls is essential.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
I am huge on bold, strong flavors, and I think every aspect of a dish should be thoughtful, whether it’s the chicken on top of a Cobb salad or the topping on a savory casserole.
Chrissy Teigen
As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making – I don’t like knee jerk decisions – but I’m not afraid to make decisions.
Ron Jaworski
I’m going to have a very thoughtful and meaningful enforcement response to Superfund to make sure that we are achieving good outcomes for citizens across the country with respect to that entire portfolio of 1,336 or so sites.
Scott Pruitt
There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.
Shelley Fabares
Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.
Wayne Dyer
I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.
Hari Kondabolu
At times, our collective anger seems a worthwhile thing – it has a weight and shape and force we couldn’t achieve as individuals – but at other times, I can’t help wondering how much it really accomplishes, if in some ways it might even impede us in our attempts to be more thoughtful, ‘enlightened’ human beings.
Kim Brooks
These Wall Street types, they’re not exactly the kind of people you want your children turning into. They’re really not very smart. They’re certainly not thoughtful or kind. They’re often poorly-educated, mostly ignorant and always self-interested and greedy.
Steve Hilton
We must protect the very things that make America so special – most certainly including our civil liberties. But we cannot do so without strong national security and a thoughtful and informed discourse.
Mike Pompeo
There are times when you do have to bring animals into captivity to save a species like California Condors, or Arabian Aurochs. But they have something called species survival plans, and they do it in a very thoughtful way and are careful with the genetics.
Eric Goode
Producing in-depth, thoughtful, well-reported journalism is difficult and expensive.
Katharine Viner
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn’t turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
Jack Kemp