Consideration Quote by Confucius

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself…

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position…

— Alexander Alekhine

“Those whose behavior requires admonishing are seldom wise enough to profit by admonition”

— Ruth Rendell (attributed to Lord Melbourne

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

— Confucius

If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

— Confucius

If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.

— Noam Chomsky

The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of…

— Dayananda Saraswati

Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

— William Cowper

Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will…

— Francesco Guicciardini

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice,…

— Anna Julia Cooper

“Neither harsh reviews, the contempt of equals nor the indifference of superiors can affect those who have once tapped the great heart of suffering…

— Cyril Connolly

“Aggressiveness, complaints, pressures, drama and polemics can wipe out a favor or a promise and stain a generous deed.”

— Angelica Hopes