A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Take liberties you shouldn’t and you’ll find your liberties are taken from you.” — John Kramer Copy Share Image
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
“Self-regulation is not simply a moral characteristic. It is biologically healthy for both your mind and the body.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I am a very violent person, Yet nobody has seen my violence. I've kept it overwhelmed all my life, With a heart… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Do you deny it?” Grimani persisted. “That you went to Marchese Rinaldo's room to ask him about your notebook?” “Deny it? Only… — Kate Ross Copy Share Image
When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint,… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
“Cheating in relationship is a sign of self-regulation failure. When it happens ones, it is a mistake. When it happens twice, it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my… — Plato Copy Share Image
As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“From which moment is it considered saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence)? What is the beginning of saiyam? From… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
“The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint… — Lu Yu Copy Share Image
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“As long as politicians lack self-restraint, they will print a lot of money at some point.” — Daniel Pecaut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
