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Let these Discretion quotes help you to have a positive attitude toward life, and to think positively.
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
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Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory.
Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that?
Offer discretion and discernment for our past
with a broad spectrum of forgiveness.
As for our present moment, delight.
And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of the society but the people themselves;
and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise
their control with a wholesome discretion,
the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
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It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter
You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
USE this time of fresh beginnings.
Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.
Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.
Exert more influence over your dreams
by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
It is any day better to stand erect
with a broken and bandaged head
then to crawl on one's belly,
in order to be able to save one's head.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Perhaps the action you take will be successful;
perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.
But any action is better than no action at all.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Better late than never.
- Proverb
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In my own deepening understanding of myself
I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well.
The better I am at self-care
the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks
for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward is a step toward
achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
At the end of a matter ask,
"What will I learn from this to make me better?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Trust yourself. Only you can live your life.
Only you can taste your victories.
Only you can suffer the sting of your defeats.
Make your own choices, and accept your own consequences -
for better or worse.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
- Anonymous
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