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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• 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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• Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Power, Eulogy, Wealth

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.71, University of Georgia Press

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• The only thing I know is that I know nothing

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Learning

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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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• For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Art, Unity, Ethical

  Friedrich Schleiermacher (1836). “Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato”, p.173

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• A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Dwarves, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1320

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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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• With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

  John Keats

  Beauty, Overcoming, Poet

  John Keats (2015). “The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.186, e-artnow

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• It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.

  James Cash Penney

  Children, Practice, Economy

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• Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

  Budd Schulberg

  Comfort, Dignity, Fighter

  "Barry Mcguigan: Brilliant Schulberg Budd was more than a contender", www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2009.

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• The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

  Mary Astell

  Lying, Passion, Light

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.190, Broadview Press

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• Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Ideas, Long, Sound

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• The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

  Lance Ito

  Cameras, Prejudice, Analysis

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• If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

  Roland Allen

  Preaching The Gospel, Soul, Thrones

  Roland Allen (2012). “The Ministry of the Spirit: Selected Writings of Roland Allen”, p.37, The Lutterworth Press

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• The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

  Charles Sturt

  Mean, Land, Found

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales”, p.58

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• Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.

  Gerald of Wales

  Three, Division, Territory

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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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• For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Change, Thinking, Long

  On the Constitution (1787)

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

  Bryant H. McGill

  Loyalty, Heart, Men

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