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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• Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Agreement, Development

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.251, Pan Macmillan

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• Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

  Simone Weil

  Kindness, Caring, Generosity

  Letter to Joë Bousquet on April 13, 1942. "Correspondance", published by Editions l'Age d'Homme in Lausanne, p. 18, 1982.

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• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

  Ed Cunningham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.

  Frank Abagnale

  Believe, Creativity, Fool

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• A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

  Jeremy Bentham

  Animal, Suffering, Moral

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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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• 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 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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• I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Evil, Doe, Freedom Of The Press

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.172, University of Chicago Press

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• I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies. This does not make sense. The proper guidance during the life of a man should be the weight that he puts upon ethics and the amount of consideration that he has for others.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Doe

  Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• The only thing I know is that I know nothing

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Learning

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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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• Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Comfort, World

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.108, Penguin

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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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• The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

  Allan Bloom

  Inspiring, Education, Philosophy

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.

  Kelly Lynch

  Character, Waiting, Looks

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• When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Done

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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 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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• From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Years, Might, Fields

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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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• 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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