Restraint Quotes

361 Restraint quotes by 286 unique authors

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint. — George Mason
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose… — Henry Miller
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and… — Michel de Montaigne
It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint. — Ryan Reynolds
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from… — Theodore Roosevelt
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. — John Ruskin
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
Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress. — Phyllis Schlafly
We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In… — Theodore C. Sorensen
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I tend to approach giving interviews with the same sense of circumspection and restraint as I approach my writing. That is to say, virtually none.… — Ayelet Waldman
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. — Daniel Webster
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far. — Mae West
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. — Woodrow Wilson
If you want to become a man of letters and perhaps write some Histories one day, you must also lie and invent tales, otherwise your… — Umberto Eco
I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without… — Margaret Cho
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not… — David O. McKay
When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are… — Alexis de Tocqueville
This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart. — Unknown Author
restraint equals indulgence — Barbara Kingsolver
Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who… — Michael Crichton
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation —… — Peter De Vries
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property;… — Emma Goldman
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. — Gustave Flaubert

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