Wallis Simpson Quotes

Never complain. Never explain.

Never complain and never explain.

I've learned a lot just being around LeBron. People say things about him all the time, but he would never say anything back. That's what I learned from him: Don't retaliate to articles or pieces or to things that are said about me.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

I never let myself get desperate.

I chose not to react to everyone's opinion.

You can't be going through life expecting everything. You gotta have discipline.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I don't vocalise things that don't deserve attention.

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

I try to stay pretty level-headed and just do what I have to do.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.'

I don't like to complain.

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and keep quiet about it.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish within yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

You have to be an adult; there is no sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself.