Self Restraint Quotes

56 quotes by 46 authors

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
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
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
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint. — Mary MacLane
The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to… — Michael Chiklis
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. — Mahatma Gandhi
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 to strength and… — Mahatma Gandhi
Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May… — Plato
Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal
Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to… — Jeffrey Kluger
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on… — Lewis H. Lapham
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
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
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
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

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