Quotes About Self-restraint

There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to.

the sweetness of self-denial and self-control

It's nice to have accomplishments and be elegant, but not to show off or get perked up." "These things are always seen and felt in a person's manner and conversations, if modestly used, but it is not necessary to display them.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

Forgive me, it's hard to control myself around such beauties.- Miroku

She had turned away from her sexuality, her instincts having warned her that to do otherwise might be to be absorbed by it; that it was for her, would always be, a big subject, a whole dark continent to map, and she wasn't prepared to go that way, be that explorer, chart those shores: not any more, or, maybe, not yet.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

Modesty is the key to success

He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs

I wanted to slap Miss Priss. Slap her hard. But I didn't do it. It always been this way with me. I'll call another girl bitch before you blink, but I don't like to hit a woman. I guess it always felt like too much of a man to do it. Strange enough. Strength always seemed to rob the girl out of me, so I always take care to keep it hid.

Can you handle it? ast Shug. How I'm gon keep from killing him, I say.

Fear crawled inside him. The anger that was so close to the surface ripped at him with rabid teeth, but he managed to rein back the reaction.

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me?

When in doubt, do without.

It makes a difference, doesn't it, whether we fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

Remember the acorn; It does not devour other acorns.

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.

She promises Etienne she will remember her age, not try to be everything to everyone, not fight the war by herself.

And you've never met me, so don't bother me with your condolences. I've got no use for them.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.