Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance. — Kate Ross Copy Share Image
The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I am a very violent person, Yet nobody has seen my violence. I've kept it overwhelmed all my life, With a heart… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and… — Lewis H. Lapham 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
Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate… — Rumi Copy Share Image
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint… — Thomas G. Bandy Copy Share Image
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The old 'qualities' of masculinity - a narrow focus on life, domestic incompetence signalling a mind on higher things, emotional reserve and… — Rosalind Coward 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
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
At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may… — Abdullah Yusuf Ali Copy Share Image
“Composure and self-restraint were not only desirable characteristics in a woman, they were essental. As my mother put it later, it was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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 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
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
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal 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
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
“As long as politicians lack self-restraint, they will print a lot of money at some point.” — Daniel Pecaut 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
