Restraint Quotes · Page 4

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire.

— David Droga

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

— Wendell Berry

“The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of…

— Bill Maher

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint

— John Stuart Mill

Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint.

— Dave Sim

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

— Samuel Smiles

“I have long held that judicial restraint, expressed through a well-reasoned rejection, is at times the most efficient form of justice; preserving…

— Henrietta Newton Martin-Legal Professional & Author

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“What is saiyam parinaam? It is when the Self (Atma) does not become one in with the non-Self (pudgal); It continues to…

— Dada Bhagwan

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic,…

— Jesse Helms

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

— Pedro Okoro

“Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive…

— Iain M. Banks

Asking Hollywood to begin to show some restraint and balance in its antireligious fury is not the same as suggesting that the…

— Michael Medved

I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes…

— Frank H. T. Rhodes

I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the semi-covert…

— Caroline Knapp

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for…

— Fred Upton

“[O]ne may properly look closely at any proposed new "freedom" from restraint or convention in order to learn what if any personal…

— J. Reuben Clark Jr

If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase…

— Bruce McCall

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken…

— Richard Dawkins

For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and…

— Catherynne M. Valente

By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost…

— Colin Fletcher

Any one who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that that tremendous catastrophe came about from…

— Herbert Spencer

There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;…

— Adam Weishaupt

Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the…

— Laozi

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

— Rufus Choate

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

— Lewis H. Lapham

The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.

— Peter Atkins

“Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.”

— Kate Chopin

Mr. Obama's choices show how fundamentally unserious he is about deficit reduction and spending restraint.

— Monica Crowley

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

— Vida Dutton Scudder

“For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary...”

— C.S. Lewis

“The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.”

— Irving Stone

I never know what time it is, If you don't know what time it is, you can just move. Time is a…

— Tierra Whack

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

— Millard Fillmore

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

— John Ruskin