Restraint Quotes

361 Restraint quotes by 286 unique authors

Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and… — Rufus Choate
If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the… — Tom Wicker
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite. — Jim Rohn
There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi
To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles. — Pietro Belluschi
It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are the… — Guy Davenport
Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints. — Helen Lynd
Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great… — Sylvia Boorstein
Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be… — George Bernard Shaw
Restraint never ruins one's health. — Mahatma Gandhi
I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see… — Mahatma Gandhi
Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint. — John F. Kennedy
A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which… — Alexis de Tocqueville
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. — Mahatma Gandhi
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? — Seneca the Younger
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself. — Andre Gide
A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of… — Joseph Conrad
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may… — Joseph Conrad
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion. — Epictetus
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not… — Unknown Author
Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess… — Clarence Day

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