Discretion Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee Download Open image “Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.” — Christian Nestell Bovee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discretion Eloquence Needs Said Silence
Silence is compliance, and not saying anything means you are okay with what is going on. — Porsha Williams Copy Share Image
I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge,… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is silent dissents. — Maria Isabel Barreno Copy Share Image
The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish:… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At the same… — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Copy Share Image
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“All sexual activity performed is at the discretion of the participants and is confined to only one hour.” — Karen A.Miles Copy Share Image
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron] — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Commonality & Camaraderie. By identifying, developing, and connecting powerful points of reference to others, you will have a rich resource of information from which… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion. — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image