Restraint Quotes

Restraint Quote of the day

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

In caring for others and serving heaven, There is nothing like using restraint.

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire. At the end of the day, it is still a battle between good vs. crap.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

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

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.