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

  Confucius

  Good Life, Bases, Consideration For Others

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• The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

  Frida Kahlo

  Artist, Feminist Art, Needs

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

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• If we meet and I say, "Hi," That's a salutation. If you ask me how I feel, That's a consideration. If we stop and talk awhile, That's a conversation. If we understand each other, That's communication. If we argue, scream and fight, That's an altercation. If later we apologize, That's a reconciliation. If we help each other home, That's cooperation. And all these ations added up Make civilization. (And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?)

  Shel Silverstein

  Communication, Home, Fighting

  Shel Silverstein, “Ations”

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• Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Literature, Used, Method

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• Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Expectations, Criticism, Courtesy

  Margaret Chase Smith (1972). “Declaration of Conscience”

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• Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

  John Amos Comenius

  Views, Diversity, Humanity

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• The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Writing, Reality, Views

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• Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.

  Mark Hanna

  Spirit, Should, Antagonism

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• I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Paris, All Things, Enjoyed

  James Weldon Johnson (2011). “The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson”, p.160, Modern Library

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• A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

  Richard Miller

  Lying, Men, Dating

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• The only thing I know is that I know nothing

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Learning

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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 consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

  Penelope Lively

  Loss, Thinking, Lost Friendship

  "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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• Self-respect knows no considerations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Respect, Self, Knows

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• Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Stupidity, Lasts

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• When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

  Betty White

  Kindness, Animal, Thinking

  "The white hot Betty White". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2012.

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• A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

  Mark Twain

  School, Sunday, Pirate

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.399, Univ of California Press

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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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• Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

  Betty White

  Kindness, Thinking, Feelings

  "The white hot Betty White". "Sunday Morning" with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2012.

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• Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

  Thomas Szasz

  Kindness, Men, People

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• I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.

  Marshall Field

  Moving, Risk, Energy

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• A prudent consideration for Number One.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Numbers, Prudent

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