Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“People who know no self-restraint lead stormy and disordered lives, passing their time in a state of fear commensurate with the injuries… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The best executive 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
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
“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I have marveled at, and sometimes openly questioned, the self-restraint God has shown throughout history, allowing the Genghis Khans and the Hitlers… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Our system is not only based on rules, but a series of self-restraints that we won't be as barbaric as we could… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“You were upset. I don't want you feeling forced into anything," he pressed on, horrified at his own words. Mental. Since when… — Elle Aycart 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
“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
“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
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase… — Bruce McCall Copy Share Image
Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of… — Kevin DeYoung 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
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
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
“The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.” — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“Take liberties you shouldn’t and you’ll find your liberties are taken from you.” — John Kramer Copy Share Image
The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
