Quotes About Self-restraint

A man who does't want opinions should keep his own mouth shut.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

She reminded Kevin again that she had forced herself to turn and walk away from him when everything in her wanted to stay.

Do not call attention to yourself with silly gestures. Do not believe that the joy of everyone in your proximity depends on you. Do not fear that one of them might be bored, in pain, or yearning for a list of famous local architects that you must volubly supply. Do not disgorge personal data to invoke an aura of mutual trust. Do not ask anyone their dearest wish or what they would like their last meal to be. Do not try too hard. Do not riff.

Jusqu'à l'été précédent, j'avais réussi au prix d'efforts et d'humiliations Ã¢â'¬â€œ  être traitée de salope et d'allumeuse Ã¢â'¬â€œ à ne pas faire l'amour complètement.

I have a Twitter profile, but I avoid red carpets and all that kind of stuff. I'd rather no one talk about me ever, and I just get to do my thing. I'm an introvert.

I've always kept a low profile and said no to 'Saturday Night Live' and stuff like that.

I don't want to be promiscuous.

I'm not promiscuous by nature.

Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.

I do not seek to scrape acquaintance with Lady Celia; I do not want my photograph in the Tatler, I have not come to exhibit myself.

and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires

To Toot One's Own Horn Is Unattractive.

Reducir las necesidades al mínimo, para no depender en nada de los demás.

I bottled up all my emotions and forced myself to grow up faster than I needed to.

The Fed cannot save us from ourselves.

I resist the temptation to curate my apartment.

Women being women, they are very sincere, committed, and honest in what they do. If they feel they are shortchanging some segment of their responsibility, they have a tendency of holding themselves back. What I would like to tell them is that it is not necessarily true that you will short-change one or the other.

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but people can limit themselves if they want to, and that's what I decided to do.

It doesn't have to be that bad,' Chade said quietly. 'Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Once I got away from him, I was smart enough to stay away from him. To hunt that one is as wise as to go hunting a porcupine. I cannot leave this alone, Nighteyes. I understand. I am the same about porcupines.

At the moment of deciding not to argue further, he had given up all emotional investment in the situation. He had withdrawn his anma into himself as he had been taught to do, divesting it of his anger and offense as he did so. It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man. He swept his mind clean of reactions to the filthy blanket. By the time he reached the foredeck, he had regained not just calmness, but wholeness.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too