Quotes About Consideration

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Tendency to say what comes to mind without necessarily considering the timing or appropriateness of the remark

However much you may fall in love, do not waste that love on a woman who is not considerate in return.

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

Play not with others' life and not let others play with your life.

The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate we ask ourselves, Are these words true? If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate we ask, Are they necessary? At the last gate we ask, Are they kind?

Erityisherkät voivat tiivistää kaikki etikettisäännöt kolmen sanan sääntöön: vähennä toisen ylivirittyneisyyttä. (Tai kahteen sanaan: ole ystävällinen.)

I am sure none of my boys and girls in Room 13 would purposely and deliberately hurt anyone's feelings because his name happened to be a long, unfamiliar one. I prefer to think that what was said was said in thoughtlessness. I know that all of you feel the way I do, that this is a very unfortunate thing to have happen. Unfortunate and sad, both. And I want you all to think about it.

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

If you will forget about yourself, whether or not you are making a good impression on people, what they think of you, and you will think about them instead, you won't be shy.

If asked, you should state how you feel, how you think. But until asked, it is an intrusion to thrust your ideas on any grown human being.

Ha parlato bene, ma senza pensare alle conseguenze". "Si parla bene proprio quando non si pensa alle conseguenze".

Für gewöhnlich neigte ich dazu, nicht dem Bedeutung beizumessen, was mir guttat, sondern dem, was ihm gefallen könnte.

Don't get angry, she said, try to reflect: what does a woman of your understanding feel at the idea that her happiness becomes the ruin of someone else?

Definitely there are times when I'm tired and don't want to give up my seat on the bus to an old person. But I get depressed, not angry—like about how I'll be an old woman someday, and even more tired than I am now. I never think I deserve the seat more because I am reading a book." Worried this might sound self-righteous, I added, "Maybe it's just because I dont' read on the bus, it makes me carsick.

Ask not the grass to give you green, and later walk all over it.

for as long as self-doubt is not paralysing, it also allows for alternative points of view to be given their proper weight and consideration and so can be considered a vital step in any sound decision-making process.

Don't jump in with two feet where truly informed people tread with care.

A person who weighs every word always before speaking it out to not upset anyone can never say truly a good thought to the people of our wicked world.

Have you ever been in a conflict with someone who thought he was wrong. If you are not wrong, then you will be willing to consider how you might be mistaken.

expressing gratitude for even the smallest kindnesses shown to me;

Open your mind before your mouth

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.