Discretion is the better part of valor.
by William Shakespeare

Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare

Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare

When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare

Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare

Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare

All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare

Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare

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

Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher

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

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

Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill

Better late than never.
- Proverb

It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

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

Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes

Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous

You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter

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

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

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

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie