“The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.” — Irving Stone 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
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“When worldly people come into a set discipine (niyam), they are known as yamdhari (one who upholds self restraint). From the moment… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why… — Edwin Way Teale 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
“of the growth of self-restraint. A starting point for Elias’s analysis was medieval treatises on polite manners such as the book On… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“A pompous, arrogant, narcissistic intellectual came up to me at a conference and said rather boastfully. "You must feel really good about… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
