Aliens Quote by Marya Mannes

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…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Self-preservation is a biological imperative even in the lowest of life forms, but annoyance is a trait exclusive to the most deviant.”

— Whiskey Britches

Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

— Wendell Berry

“The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

— Horace

The self-bound individual always forgets that his self would be safeguarded better and automatically the more he prepares himself for the welfare of mankind,…

— Alfred Adler

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire.

— David Droga

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

— Seneca the Younger

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your…

— Stephanie Dowrick

That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.

— C. S. Lewis

The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined…

— Bertha von Suttner

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…

— Rumi