Quotes About Self-restraint

You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy.

I was always taught to keep things private.

I keep my private life to myself, and that's going to continue.

I'm a very private person. I barely tell my friends what's going on half the time, so the idea that I should then talk to the world about what is going on seems anathema to me. People can say what they want. I'm not going to change anyone's mind.

I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody.

I know I deal with it, I'm sure a lot of other people deal with it: you have that little funny dig you want to give on Twitter or you want to put in your column. Don't do it. it always undermines your argument.

Never dip lower than you can dip.

If you want to be expressive about something, do it. If you want to keep something to yourself, keep it to yourself. I have my own ways, people have theirs.

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

I wouldn't say I have a bad temper.

I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.

I had schooled myself since the war-days never to speak of my enthusiasms; when other people did not share them, which was usual, I was hurt and my pleasure diminished; why was I always excited about things other people did not care about? But I could not hold in.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

My greatest skill has been to want little. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN A

I know the difference between what I can't do and what I refuse to do.

She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne—bubbly and intoxicating—and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didn't want to seem like an easy mark. "If you must know, I've come to join a convent," Evie said, testing him.

A wise man who loves the peaches at home does not want to shake any other trees.

Whatever you wanna drink girl, pick right now. If you cant hold your liquor, better quit right now.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

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

No person could fill twenty-six years of lack. And each personality had learned from experience that is was less painful to set limits than to have some external person set limits for us. (95)

You have to stay away." "I'd rather not.