Self Restraint Quotes

56 Self Restraint quotes by 46 unique authors

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
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,… — H.G. Wells
Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance. — Kate Ross
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. — Laozi
The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require… — John F. Kennedy
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. — Philip Massinger
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that… — Thomas Huxley
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under… — George Packer
I am a firm believer in democratic representative government as the best form for those who have the tolerance and self-restraint that is required to… — Bertrand Russell
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to… — Theodore Roosevelt
My will and self restraint. Have come to fail now, fail now. — Shakira

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