No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint. — Li Mu Copy Share Image
“Politics of abundance, by contrast, arise from an ethic of measured restraint.” — Mary Christina Wood Copy Share Image
“The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.” — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary...” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Purpose gives rise to discipline, restraint, and self-control, which are crucial, fundamental tools for success in the journey of life.” — Pedro Okoro Copy Share Image
I don't want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
“The One whose body, mind and speech become saiyamit (under his control), He Himself has become the absolute Self (Parmatma)!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
The concept of freedom in Scripture differs from modern notions. Freedom is not a life lived free of restraints but a life… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical… — Adam Croasdell 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
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“As to answering though, said Sara, trying to console herself, I don't answer very often. I never answer when I can help… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Half of love is restraint. Patience and respect. Don’t waste your time on the unworthy.” — Aleksandr Voinov Copy Share Image
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“Repression, a degree of restraint, and a little dedication to self-editing belong to love just as surely as a capacity for explicit… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single. — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“Edna lived a dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image