Quotes About Consideration

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

People, nearly all of them, don't know how to worry about others without being presumptuous, with finesse, with modesty. They think they know.

That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca's experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.

We must not build up ourselves at the expense of others.

When you truly love someone, you want to please and honor them by the way you act. How you treat someone shows whether or not you really care about them.

Instead of manipulating [people] for our own purposes, we'd help them achieve what is best for them. We'd also try to see life through their eyes. Treat others the way you would want them to treat you.

Kyoya: I don't like this food. But do you think I'd be so inhuman as to complain after you treated me? That's a rude assumption.

The doctrine of the law then is this: that precedents and rules must be followed, unless flatly absurd or unjust: for though their reason be not obvious at first view, yet we owe such a deference to former times as not to suppose they acted wholly without consideration.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first." Joe

Watch out for the other guy. Watch out for his interests. Watch his back. Forget about fifty-fifty, son. Fifty-fifty's a losing proposition. The only winning proposition is one hundred percent. Make your win about the other person, go after what he wants. Forget win-win—focus on the other person's win.

Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.

Thank you, Sal," said Pindar. Sal bowed to Pindar and winked at Joe. It struck Joe that Pindar was exceedingly gracious to everyone they encountered, and, as they took their seats, Joe asked Pindar about that. "It never hurts to be kind to people," Pindar replied.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

the best way to earn the goodwill of your neighbor is to ask either explicitly or implicitly, "What can I do to be useful to you?

Bear in mind the words "I matter" as a reminder that your needs are as worthy of consideration as anyone else's. Don't deny your needs and preferences in order to be liked or to find approval.

I encourage the following practice: pause before you share. I encourage us all to take a moment before passing on a quote or a news story in order to do a little research. Someone (and I'm pretty sure it wasn't the Buddha) said that "Google before you share" is the new "think before you speak.

People really wanted to hear me say that what they were considering [with regard to activities during the COVID-19 pandemic] was okay, no matter what that was. It just doesn't work that way. The most important message was limit your contact to just a very few people.

it takes no more time to be polite to every one than it does to be rude.

Any man was likely to take it amiss if his name were remembered incorrectly, and there was absolutely no point in offending his subordinates unnecessarily.

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.

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

We should have a way of telling people they have bad breath without hurting their feelings. "Well, I'm bored. Let's go brush our teeth." Or, "I've got to make a phone call. Hold this gum in your mouth."

Always better to be cautious. Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard. Shane