Self Restraint Quotes

56 Self Restraint quotes by 46 unique authors

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. — Louisa May Alcott
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman. — William Howard Taft
Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you… — Napoleon Hill
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. — Marya Mannes
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
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root. — Robert Burns
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint. — James Russell Lowell
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the… — Mahatma Gandhi
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and… — Otto Hermann Kahn
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint. — Edwin Way Teale
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. — Confucius
Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint. — Wendell Berry
Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world? — Prince Philip
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. — Holly Lisle
The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe. — Gautama Buddha
Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of… — Kevin DeYoung
Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any… — Rudyard Kipling
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take… — Edwin Way Teale
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their… — Samuel Smiles
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. — Henry Ward Beecher
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth. — Nouman Ali Khan
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
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making. — Samuel Smiles
When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when… — Rabindranath Tagore
There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi

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