Quotes About Consideration For Others

#1. People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and not expecting anything back. That's the difference.

Simon Baker

#2. Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

Benjamin Disraeli

#3. Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Emily Post

#4. A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. Contrary to the common misconception that loving yourself equates to being self-absorbed and lacking empathy or consideration for others, the true meaning of self-love is about caring, respecting and knowing yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and ultimately, your happiness.

Miya Yamanouchi

#6. Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

Confucius

#7. Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.

Dinesh D'Souza

#8. I suppose I could admire all these slow Seattle drivers for their safety-mindedness, consideration for others, and peace of mind. Instead, I'm a fury of annoyance.

Maria Semple

#9. Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

Thomas Sowell

#10. Concern for Others Loophole: We tell ourselves that we're acting out of consideration for others and making generous, unselfish decisions. Or we decide we must do something in order to fit into a social situation.

Gretchen Rubin

#11. Consideration for others brings many things.

John Wooden

#12. If I show consideration for others," Lillian Lynburn said grumpily, "will you tell me again about how you shot my husband?"
Jon rolled his eyes. "Yes, Leigh, if you manage to approximate human behavior for half an hour, I will tell you your favorite story again.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#13. Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Bryant H. McGill

#14. There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#15. I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

Colin Farrell

#16. 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.

Theodor Adorno

#17. Choose your words wisely with consideration for others & self because repetitive, meaningless words ... leave people tone deaf.

Sanjo Jendayi

#18. Consideration for the rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for behavior in public but the very foundation upon which social life is built.

Emily Post

#19. A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

A.A. Milne

#20. Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#21. When I say only himself, I mean directly, and in the first instance: for whatever affects himself, may affect others through himself; and the objection which may be grounded on this contingency, will receive consideration in the sequel. This, then, is the appropriate region of human liberty.

John Stuart Mill

#22. This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal preferences without consideration for their effect upon others brings in the end nothing but ruin and devastation.

Hortense Odlum

#23. PM Modi needs to do something about first cleaning this country of uncivilized, badly brought up kids with no regard, consideration or respect for others.

Nidhi Singh

#24. Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Alice Duer Miller

#25. It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

John Major

#26. True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Samuel Smiles

#27. With that tender consideration which, in great crises, people who are crushed by grief shew even for the slightest discomfort of others:

"Forgive me for disturbing your sleep," she said to me.

"I was not asleep," I answered as I awoke.

Marcel Proust

#28. Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.

Gore Vidal

#29. For a long time, there was this rumor that I turned down doing 'Austin Powers,' which is not true. While they did send me the script, I don't think I was ever a serious consideration to direct it. I'm sure they probably sent it to 20 others as well.

Terry Zwigoff

#30. Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

Ambrose Bierce

#31. People who own their lives do not feel guilty when they make choices about where they are going. They take other people into consideration, but when they make choices for the wishes of others, they are choosing out of love, not guilt; to advance a good, not to avoid a bad.

Henry Cloud