Quotes About Consideration

Caring for others is the best way to fulfil our own interests.

Never ask anyone to do anything for you that you wouldn't do for him or her if the circumstances were reversed. There is a

He follows the habit of listening much and talking only when he has something to say that may benefit himself or others.

Take time to be Courteous. Courtesy lightens the burdens of toil. Courtesy demands respect. Courtesy is a little brother to Opportunity and follows her around through the hours of the busy day. Courtesy always leads a man higher up.

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries

The chief ethical rule is the following: Thou shalt not have antifragility at the expense of the fragility of others.

Silver Rule (negative golden rule): Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you. Note the difference from the Golden Rule, as the silver one prevents busybodies from attempting to run your life.

one cannot judge a performance in any given field (war, politics, medicine, investments) by the results, but by the costs of the alternative (i.e., if history played out in a different way).

never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact—and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings.

in absence of much additional information it is preferable to reserve one's judgment.

She was willing to put herself out for others, but when it was just for her, it hardly mattered.

I gotta go to the bathroom, Emby mumbles. You should have thought of that before you left, says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.

We must always be careful of the actions we take, for there are always unintended consequences. Sometimes they are serendipitous, other times they are appalling, but those consequences are always there. We must tread lightly in this world...until we are sure of foot.

I would never hurt one person's chances to help another--even if that other person was someone I cared about.

I won't steal from her. I would never hurt one person's chances to help another—even if that other person was someone I cared about.

It seemed better to delay thinking.

When you've considered everything, you've considered too much.

I would apologize to the devil if you treated him as you treat Nicola.

No human being has the right to put his own desires in front of the happiness of anyone else.

he'd tried to teach her to be as thoughtful of his employees as she was of him and of her friends;

If you are a drinker, always use a pseudonym when booking hotels. None of us really know what kind of mess we're going to leave behind, and there's no sense in getting banned from a resort you respect.

but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22

A man might pick his way with the utmost care through a crowded market but find that the hem of his cloth had upset and broken another's wares; in such a case the man, not his cloth, was held to repair the damage.

She would hear the verbal balancing act: urgency mixed like gin amid the tonic of consideration.