Consideration Quotes

• The only true source of politeness is consideration.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Source, Politeness, Polite

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.235

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• Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Motivational, Attitude, Men

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• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Independent, Labor Day

  Annual Message to Congress, 3 Dec. 1861

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• A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Friendship, Relationship

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.93, Egmont UK

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• Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

  Confucius

  Good Life, Bases, Consideration For Others

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• I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

  William H. Seward

  Europe, Mexico, Slavery

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• Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

  Nigel Kneale

  Haunting

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• My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

  Leon Kass

  Jobs, Decision, President

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• I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

  James Longstreet

  Ideas, Campaigns, Fancy

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• The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Views, Two Sides

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• I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

  James Lee Burke

  Writing, Arabia, Littles

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• Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Way, Nuclear

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• The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.

  Kelly Lynch

  Film

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• The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

  Frida Kahlo

  Art, Happy Friday, Needs

  Christina Burrus, Frida Kahlo (2008). “Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint My Reality'”

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• Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

  Steven Pinker

  Motivation, Inspiration, Moral

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• Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.

  Pliny the Elder

  Common, Share, Enjoy

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

  George Orwell

  Elements, Capacity, Tendencies

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• In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.

  Fujiwara no Teika

  Expression, Firsts, Merit

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• Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Loyalty, Heart, Men

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• The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Attitude, Not Good Enough, Agitation

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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• That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

  L. Frank Baum

  Common Folk, People, Tree

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “30+ FANTASY ADVENTURES & FAIRY TALES – Ultimate Collection (Magical World Series): The Wizard of Oz Series, Dot and Tot of Merryland, Mother Goose in Prose, The Magical Monarch of Mo, American Fairy Tales, The Master Key, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Sea Fairies…”, p.234, e-artnow

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• The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

  Havelock Ellis

  Life, Beautiful, Taken

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.7, Elsevier

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• The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Safety, History

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:”, p.732, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

  Alfred Nobel

  Wish, Nobel, Scandinavia

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• The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of United Nations Mission in Kosovo.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Believe, Law, Provision

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