Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. — Henry Ward Beecher 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
“Take liberties you shouldn’t and you’ll find your liberties are taken from you.” — John Kramer 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
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
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
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
“Self-regulation is not simply a moral characteristic. It is biologically healthy for both your mind and the body.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that… — Caroline Knapp 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
“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
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
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
The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are… — John F. Kennedy 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.” — Irving Stone 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
“The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.” — Leo Tolstoy 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
“Of course I contradict myself. Why else would hold things in and put the fire out?” — Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso Copy Share Image
The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly… — Michael Chiklis Copy Share Image
