Discretion Quotes

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.

Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.

That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. (“Crépuscule du désir”)

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

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments...

Honesty doesn't mean you reveal everything you discern and feel. That is why we have the word discretion...

Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; her will was strong, her sense was excellent, and people yielded to her – they did not know why.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

Samad! My mouth is like the grave! Whatever is told to me dies with me."Whatever was told to Zinat invariably lit up the telephone network, rebounded off aerials, radio waves, and satellites along the way, picked up finally by advanced alien civilizations as it bounced through the atmosphere of planets far removed from this one.

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to drawso near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she cannot truly like him, or notlike him with true affection! If she did, she need not coin her smiles solavishly, flash her glances so unremittingly, manufacture airs so elaborate,graces so multitudinous.

We need Wisdom to seek for the Kindom and we need the Kingdom to have the Freedom to posess all other things!

Your ability to show discretion defines your likeliness to contribute to a wholesome performance.

A secret spoken finds wings.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.

When you are posessed by evil spirits, it is crafty manipulations that you follow; but when you are posessed by the Holy Spirit of God, it is wise discretions you pursue!

You know your Bible too well and life too little.