Quotes About Self Restraint

#1. Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?

Prince Philip

#2. The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

Charles Eisenstein

#3. Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

Edith Hamilton

#4. But at the heart of character is the ability to restrain our desires. As a man grows in character, he builds the muscles of self-restraint.

Richard E. Simmons III

#5. Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.

Thomas G. Bandy

#6. The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.

Irving Stone

#7. There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. And if there are any two moral stances that our times call for, they are precisely these, self-restraint and compassion.

Daniel Goleman

#9. Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

Holly Lisle

#10. Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

Erik Erikson

#11. A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

Muhammad Iqbal

#13. Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. If you want to write believable fiction, you will have to cross over the line of your self-restraint and revel in the words and ideas that you would never express in your everyday life.

Walter Mosley

#15. There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

Rumi

#16. Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

Edith Hamilton

#17. All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.

Caroline Knapp

#19. Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.

Shannon Fife

#20. Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#21. the man who has the soul of the wolf
knows the self-restraint
of the wolf

Gary Snyder

#22. When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element

Rabindranath Tagore

#23. The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

Gautama Buddha

#24. Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.

Herbert Hoover

#25. By our day, self-restraint was considered madness.

Mark Sayers

#26. Be grateful to him who curses you, for he gives you a mirror to show what cursing is, also a chance to practise self-restraint; so bless him and be glad. Without exercise, power cannot come out; without the mirror, we cannot see ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

#27. Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Lewis H. Lapham

#28. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

#29. Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

Nouman Ali Khan

#30. Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

Ambrose Bierce

#31. For to people of that sort, just as to those lacking self-restraint,15 knowledge is without benefit. But to those who fashion their longings in accord with reason and act accordingly, knowing about these things would be of great profit.

Aristotle.

#32. Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

George Bernard Shaw

#34. Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

Aristotle.

#35. Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

Wendell Berry

#37. Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

Paul Tournier

#38. Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

Marya Mannes

#39. It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life and a happy life, and of course, be dedicated to the cause.

Frederick Lenz

#40. People who know no self-restraint lead stormy and disordered lives, passing their time in a state of fear commensurate with the injuries they do to others, never able to relax.

Seneca.

#41. Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

James Russell Lowell

#42. Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

William Howard Taft

#43. Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

Mahatma Gandhi

#44. Asceticism, also called ascesis, is the practice of rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint and is performed as a spiritual discipline. Like

Randi Fredricks, Ph.D.

#45. I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Mary MacLane

#46. Do you usually show so little self restraint, special agent? Or do you ask all the girls to marry you?

Tate Hallaway

#47. Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

John F. Kennedy

#49. The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.

T.E. Lawrence

#50. The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

Allan Bloom

#51. In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

Jonathan Sacks

#52. Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.

Plato

#53. Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

George Packer

#54. The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.

Lu Yu

#55. You have no idea how hard it is for me not to grab you and throw you down on my bed right now. It's taking every ounce of self -restraint I have to be this close to you and not be inside of you.

Michelle Lynn

#56. The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught resistance to pragmatic temptation. He was definitely a man of sentiment, who refused to put matters on a basis of materialism and self-aggrandizement.

Richard M. Weaver

#57. Among people lacking self-restraint, those apt to be impulsive40 are better than those who are in possession of an argument [logos] but do not abide by it. For

Aristotle.

#58. We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

Woodrow Wilson

#59. The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.

Leo Tolstoy

#60. The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

#61. Toad, who happens to have the ball at that moment, doesn't seem to think it's a very good idea. But then Omar utters those golden words that have the magical power to obliterate every child's self-restraint anywhere in the world: "You don't have the guts to do it!

Fredrik Backman

#62. Do you deny it? Grimani persisted.
Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.

Kate Ross

#63. Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

Ed Parker

#64. You were upset. I don't want you feeling forced into anything, he pressed on, horrified at his own words. Mental. Since when did he let chivalry get in the way of a blowjob? Talk about boycotting oneself, jeez.

Elle Aycart

#65. Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

Zeno Of Citium

#66. The wise man, by vigor, mindfulness, restraint, and self-control, creates for himself an island which no flood can submerge.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#67. I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#68. People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

Eric Hoffer

#69. So why has this potentially self-destructive system of economic arrangements lasted? Probably because of habits of restraint, honesty and moderation which accompanied its emergence.

Tony Judt

#70. An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

Vida Dutton Scudder

#71. Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.

John F. Kennedy

#72. Embrace the grey, for much of life gets out of restraint.

Myself

#73. But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#74. Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control.

Abhijit Naskar

#75. In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by
restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

#76. Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.

Simon Sinek

#77. The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at the start, but the physical and emotional debt incurred will take a long time to pay off.

N. T. Wright

#78. In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#79. Religions - most of them, anyway - had promoted self-effacement, sacrifice, restraint.

Nancy Kress

#80. He wanted to take Homer Wells in his arms, and hug him, and kiss him, but he could only hope that Homer understood how much Dr. Larch's self-esteem was dependent on his self-control.

John Irving

#81. Take liberties you shouldn't and you'll find your liberties are taken from you.

John Kramer

#82. Self-regulation is not simply a moral characteristic. It is biologically healthy for both your mind and the body.

Abhijit Naskar

#83. One of the presidential campaigns unveiled more of an infrastructure in place for the next contest than was previously thought to be present, with a spokesperson saying that one of the campaign's strengths is that it does not make an effort to draw attention to with every asset.

New York Times

#84. Great men have great discipline.

Habeeb Akande

#85. There is a difference between what you want, and what you need.

Abhijit Naskar

#86. Lipton, a professor of history at SUNY Stony Brook, concluded, "In the face of recent revelations about the reckless and self-indulgent sexual conduct of so many of our elected officials, it may be worth recalling that sexual restraint rather than sexual prowess was once the measure of a man.

Timothy J. Keller

#87. Purpose gives rise to discipline, restraint, and self-control, which are crucial, fundamental tools for success in the journey of life.

Pedro Okoro

#88. You're wrong."
"I am?"
"I thought things through this time around. I even managed to restrain myself."
Theo stared at her, incredulous. "You did."
"I thought about kicking him in the balls, but I didn't. I figured that would be over kill." - Rendezvous with Destiny

Jess Schira

#89. Now you know how I fooled you," he would say. "Try to figure out on your own how your congressmen and clergymen fool you. There is no restraint that isn't self-imposed: you are all absolutely free.

Robert Anton Wilson

#90. Ours is peculiarly an age of irreverence, and as the consequence, the spirit of lawlessness, which brooks no restraint and which is desirous of casting off everything which interferes with the free course of self-will, is rapidly engulfing the earth like some giant tidal

Arthur W. Pink

#91. True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

Michel De Montaigne

#92. Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

Thiruvalluvar

#93. Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self.

Kafka, Franz

#94. Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.

Robert A. Heinlein

#95. The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"
which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Frank Herbert