“The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.” — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“Half of love is restraint. Patience and respect. Don’t waste your time on the unworthy.” — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
The only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then. — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable… — George Will Copy Share Image
The choice of evil is given, so that restraint could be taught and practiced, and a higher level of enlightment could be… — QJ Copy Share Image
The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Our system is not only based on rules, but a series of self-restraints that we won't be as barbaric as we could… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true… — Tom Wicker Copy Share Image
Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists… — George Will Copy Share Image
The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they can never be maintained. Divided into twenty-four, or… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
“I fuck everything up, Rynna, and the only thing I’ve got to offer you is my mess. I can’t do this.” Restraint… — A.L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation,… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
