Quotes About Consideration

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

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

As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down."

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Before you open your mouth," I tell him, "I want you to stop and think. Ask yourself: 'What is the thing I'm about to say going to feel like to the person I'm speaking to?

Aspire to a lower level of harm.

Life is one big judgment call. (And a neverending series of little ones.)

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

Lawrence was an earnest, but not a serious, writer—if by serious we mean one whose outlook on life is intellectually or morally worthy of our consideration.

In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Nothing will hinder you more than thinking only about yourself.

This is great wisdom, not to be hasty in action, or stubborn in our own opinions.

Quickly enough we feel and reckon up what we bear at the hands of others, but we reflect not how much others are bearing from us.

In like manner humanity understood is only in this or that man; but that humanity be apprehended without conditions of individuality, that is, that it be abstracted and consequently considered as universal, occurs to humanity inasmuch as it is brought under the consideration of the intellect, in which there is a likeness of the specific nature, but not of the principles of individuality.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

As far as same-sex marriage, I really would want to think about that a lot more given the fact that my focus would be always on the child. The innocent should not be given more even burdens than what is absolutely necessary.

You have to live with the necessities of other people.