Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
The best leader 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
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint… — Lu Yu Copy Share Image
“As long as politicians lack self-restraint, they will print a lot of money at some point.” — Daniel Pecaut Copy Share Image
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint,… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may… — Jeffrey Kluger 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
Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my… — Plato Copy Share Image
“A woman may walk around naked in front of a man, but a civilized man would never jump over her, driven by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“He wanted to take Homer Wells in his arms, and hug him, and kiss him, but he could only hope that Homer… — John Irving 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
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
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
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
“I want to tell you you look beautiful, but I know you don't like that." He dips his chin toward his chest… — Cheryl McIntyre 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
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
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
“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
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
