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 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
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
“The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.” — Leo Tolstoy 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
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth. — Nouman Ali Khan 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-regulation is not simply a moral characteristic. It is biologically healthy for both your mind and the body.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“You have no idea how hard it is for me not to grab you and throw you down on my bed right… — Michelle Lynn 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. — Marya Mannes 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
