"The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it."

--

Source : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

Dorothy Nevill

#Self Quotes #Self Control Quotes #Neglect Quotes

“One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.”
“The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.”
“If [you are] over the age of 10, the question isn't whether or not to eat healthy to prevent heart disease, it's whether or not you want to reverse the heart disease you already have.”
“Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.”

Source : 'The Cremation of Sam McGee' (1907)
“In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.”
“There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ... don't offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.”
“War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.”
“If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.”

You may also like:

Charles Hamilton Aide
Writer
Dorothy Bryant
Novelist
Lord Randolph Churchill
British Statesman