Restrain Yourself Quotes

#1. Delayed gratification the ability to control yourself or restrain yourself from getting an instant benefit.

Sunday Adelaja

#2. Don't restrain yourself to mundaneness. You're subject to consciousness that makes you more than animalistic.

T.F. Hodge

#3. Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

Polycarp

#4. If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.

Jonas Armstrong

#5. Restrain yourself ... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain.

Homer

#6. In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you're going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you're doing the part. So you'll see a lot of flailing arms, but a very still face.

Brendan Dooling

#7. I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Mila Kunis

#8. It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andre Gide

#9. Good. So, Mrs. Grey . . . by popular demand, I'm going to restrain you. His

E.L. James

#10. Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

Ronald Reagan

#11. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.

Harry Browne

#13. A person in my position has to restrain himself.

Vin Diesel

#14. Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

Philip Roth

#15. Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.

John Fletcher

#16. Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.

Thomas A Kempis

#17. Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#18. I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

Chester Brown

#19. Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#20. Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Samuel Johnson

#21. I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life ... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

James Boswell

#22. We should neither try to demolish technology nor run away from it. We can restrain it and must redeem it. - ALBERT BORGMANN

Anonymous

#23. Wherever his faltering mind,
unsteadily wanders,
he should restrain it
and bring it under self-control
Krishna, the mind is faltering,
violent, strong, and stubborn;
I find it as difficult
to hold as the wind.

Vikram Seth

#24. The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#25. Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness.

John R. Dallas Jr.

#26. I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

Charles R. Swindoll

#27. One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

James K. Polk

#28. I am now the site of an unmistakable sag ... With fancy holographic belt buckles do I attempt to restrain my stampeding softness. In vain ... My only virtues, as a physical specimen, are my sideburns, which are like the pelts of rare woodland animals. My sideburns are not to be ignored.

Rick Moody

#29. Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved?

Stephanie Dray

#30. If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.

Washington Allston

#31. It takes a stronger person to restrain from retaliation, then opposing to someone who's filled with vengeance

Takina Cupp

#32. The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Chanakya

#33. Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#34. Please restrain your commentary on the furniture.

Holly Black

#35. He knew there was no one to restrain him now, and he knew that he was beaten. But an animal will always fight for its life to the bitter end; no animal ever licks the boots of his executioner.

Georgi Vladimov

#36. It's in the nature of television to restrain the spontaneity of a live event. Things become more and more prepackaged.

Bill Condon

#37. The laws receive their force and authority from an oath of fidelity, either tacit or expressed, which living subjects have sworn to their sovereign, in order to restrain the intestine fermentation of the private interest of individuals.

Cesare Beccaria

#38. I'm not Sisyphus trying to restrain death. Illyria is a soldier. If it's her time, it's her time. I'm not at war with Atropos. It's her will to take us whenever she likes. My only goal is to die with dignity. (Stryker)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#39. Have you ever noticed that our maximum loss of energy occurs when we try to
restrain the flow of whatever that is coming from within?

Deep Trivedi

#40. The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.

Roman Dmowski

#41. It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#42. Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

Cato The Younger

#43. I'd once been told that if a man wanted something he did not have, no matter how elusive that thing was, if his feet do not restrain him from chasing it, he would eventually grab it. This was our case.

Chigozie Obioma

#44. R5 Passive Knower: "If, whenever I have to make a judgement, I restrain my will so that it extends to what the intellect clearly and distinctly reveals, and no further, then it is quite impossible for me to go wrong" (Descartes, PWD 2:43).

Lee Braver

#45. I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#46. By this Yoshida explains that 'when we look at the actual conditions of this world through the camera's lens, we must deny the random movements of the human eye and restrain the eye's constant movements in order to focus on one point.

Isolde Standish