Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance. — Kate Ross Copy Share Image
I'm an improvisational actor. I like to do my own thing. But once in a while, I think you should have the… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
“One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues -… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“You have no idea how hard it is for me not to grab you and throw you down on my bed right… — Michelle Lynn Copy Share Image
“The old 'qualities' of masculinity - a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and… — Rosalind Coward Copy Share Image
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint… — Thomas G. Bandy Copy Share Image
“The requirement by some Christians that others be Biblically 'ennobling' (lovingly building-them-up) by showing resilience & self-restraint in the face of their… — Gary Patton 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
When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do you usually show so little self restraint, special agent? Or do you ask all the girls to marry you?” — Tate Hallaway Copy Share Image
Today, I pray that I will practice self restraint, pause when I am agitated and realize that my words can be hurtful!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have… — George Packer Copy Share Image
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“The requirement by some Christians that others be Biblically 'ennobling' (lovingly building-them-up) by showing resilience & self-restraint in the face of their… — Gary Patton Copy Share Image
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply,… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
