Definition of Consideration

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Consideration

The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention.

Attentive respect; appreciative regard; -- used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence.

Thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice.

Claim to notice or regard; some degree of importance or consequence.

The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession.

That which is, or should be, taken into account as a ground of opinion or action; motive; reason.

The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; compensation; equivalent.

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Consideration Quotations

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Thomas Paine

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose Bierce

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Frida Kahlo

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Frida Kahlo

Consideration Translations

consideration in German is Gegenleistung, Hinweis
consideration in Italian is considerazione
consideration in Norwegian is hensyn, overveielse

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