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.”

“Your words can permanently influence a life.”

“You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.”

“Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.”

“Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.”

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”

“Your words can make others love, or they can make them hate.”

“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.”

“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.”

“While we are zealous for good works, let us be careful not to put them in the place of Christ's righteousness, and not to advance anything which may betray others into so dreadful a delusion.”

“Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.”

“It is thy duty oftentimes to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty, too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.”

“Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions.”

“Care and diligence bring luck.”

“Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full fair wind blowing it with speed to the haven.”

“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.”

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

“Make no vows to perform this or that; it shows no great strength, and makes thee ride behind thyself.”