Quotes About Consideration

As far as trying to analyze all the attention I received, I will leave that to others.

You have to have a sense of what it looks like, not from the point of view of the policymaker but from the point of view of those who are at the receiving end of your policies.

But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or the recommendation of the American administration. American administration was very powerful.

I would love to put closure on my career with one last fight at the Garden, but at the same time, if that doesn't happen, I definitely consider myself done.

A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.

I like my decisions to be taken carefully, so they don't harm anyone close to me, so that the people close to me are happy.

Everybody wants the world to be a better place, and some think that government actions can bring that about. But they don't take into consideration that government actions can often do more harm than good.

I want to make sure if I do something, I want to make sure it will help and not harm.

One should think twice before harming an animal.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.

One need not be a Mother Teresa, but being kind and well-behaved with those around us can win people's hearts.

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.

Jules has always put herself last I guess.

I'm very hesitant to call somebody a racist, a sexist.

In seeking to improve their conditions, might I not do them harm, and only harm?

By all means tell people, when you are busy about something that must be done, that you cannot spare the time for them except they want of you something of yet more pressing necessity; but tell them, and do not get rid of them by the use of the instrument commonly called the cold shoulder. It is a wicked instrument.

A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better. The debased language that I have been discussing is in some ways very convenient. Phrases like a not unjustifiable assumption, leaves much to be desired, would serve no good purpose, a consideration which we should do well to bear in mind, are a continuous temptation, a packet of aspirins always at one's elbow.

should give thought to those future days.

If thou desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring they friend's burdens upon thyself.

Err in the direction of kindness.

So I suppose one danger is that we might get the idea that, you know, "to blurt, is to be." The idea that whatever comes out is good and is us. Whereas someone who has really worked with text realizes – well, that neither one is "really" you, but that the considered version might represent a "higher" you – brighter, less willing to coast or condescend, funnier, and (mysteriously) also, I think, kinder.

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. ~Message to the House of Representatives, 3 December 1793