Inspirational Quotes on Discretion

“The number of things he thought of saying all at once nearly suffocated him.”

“there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it”

“A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.”

“Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.”

“Your words can permanently influence a life.”

“Take heed of jesting; many have been ruined by it. It is hard to jest, and not sometimes jeer too, which often sinks deeper than we intended or expected.”

“If thou art a master, be sometimes blind, if a servant, sometimes deaf.”

“One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low.”

“If thou would'st be borne with, then bear with others.”

“Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches!”

“The believer's experience is consequently a rather complex matter. It is imperative that we determine for ourselves whether we have been delivered from the base and the ignoble.”

“Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.”

“When men comfort themselves with philosophy, 'tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.”

“It is good to make a jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.”

“Rashness is the faithful but unhappy parent of misfortune.”

“Soft words are hard arguments.”

“Generosity, wrong placed, becometh a vice; a princely mind will undo a private family.”

“A small demerit extinguishes a long service.”

“Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance.”

“We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.”