When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Of course I contradict myself. Why else would hold things in and put the fire out?” — Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso Copy Share Image
I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most. — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Those who practice restraint in body, word, and mind are surely in control of themselves.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to… — Lyndon B. Johnson 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
“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 Copy Share Image
Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover . . . the traditional teaching… — Donald Worster 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
Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social… — Daniel Henninger Copy Share Image
“So she hadn't completely lost her sense of propriety -- and for some reason he was glad of that. Yet even as… — Elizabeth Boyle Copy Share Image
“Restraint: “There are three things that must always act restrained. Even five that should not use violence as their final word: The… — D.J. Kenny Copy Share Image
Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“When is 'our' worldly interaction considered good? It is from the moment 'we' have become saiyamit (in control of one's mind-body and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“It took all my restraint not to fall to my knees in front of her and beg her to love me.” — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The hardest thing for me is restraint. I see fresh beans and ramps, and I start to quiver. — Alex Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence. — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image