Restraint Quotes

361 Restraint quotes by 286 unique authors

The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose… — Michael Burry
What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul? — Abraham Kuyper
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. — Henry Ward Beecher
Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint. — Dave Sim
Reckless action is worse than wise restraint. — Danielle Trussoni
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. — Steven James
Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination — Stephanie Dowrick
It is impossible to restore the sustainable societies of indigenous and aboriginal peoples. But the values they embodied - careful stewardship of the earth, modest… — Jeremy Seabrook
Your pursuit of personal greatness challenges others to fear for their own causes, their own battles and pursuits. Your freedom is a reminder of their… — James Victore
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth. — Nouman Ali Khan
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course,… — J. Irwin Miller
Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder -… — Martin Heidegger
I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint. — Shin Kyung-sook
All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other… — Lysander Spooner
I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a… — Karl Rove
To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint. — Georges Bataille
As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of… — Alexander Hamilton
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of… — Thomas Jefferson
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government. — Benjamin Rush
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. — Lascelles Abercrombie
The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to… — Charlotte Bronte
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making. — Samuel Smiles
We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover . . . the traditional teaching that power must… — Donald Worster
Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if… — Thomas S. Power
I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as… — Flannery O'Connor

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