Quotes About Self-restraint

In the words of the Spanish Catholic saint Josemaría Escrivá, "He has most who needs least. Don't create needs for yourself.

I'm not a drama queen.

I tend to be on the quiet side. I think I would have been bigger if I had a big mouth.

I wasn't the kind of player to make a fuss.

I buy food and gasoline - that's it.

Greatness of character consists in having one's feelings under control. And even without any pleasure in this restraint, but merely because.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La verdadera libertad consiste en el dominio absoluto de sí mismo (Galileo Galilei)

I think you have to be wise and know your limitations and know how to work within them.

A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Cuando quiero llorar, no lloro, y a veces lloro sin querer...

I knew I was free; that I had always been free; held back only by my own weakness, lacking impulse and the imagination to break away from an existence that had become habitual for years.

What is imperative is the Off switch; which he, at one point some time ago, opted for himself.

Be your own judge. But commit no trespass, remembering that where another's liberty begins your own inevitably meets its boundary.

Kimseyle hiçbir konuda yar?? halinde de?ilim. Kimseden ak?ll?, kimseden güzel, kimseden iyi olma gibi bir iddiam yok. Kimse için en de?ilim. Daha de?ilim. Bu devasa iddias?zl???n bana verdi?i özgürlü?ün hastas?y?m.

Most people cannot handle freedom. They are always trying to bind themselves, but only talking , mouthing freedom all the time because freedom needs courage , freedom needs a certain madness

with how little he was satisfied, such as lodging, bed, dress, food, servants;

Two characteristics shared by gods and men (and every rational creature): i. Not to let others hold you back. ii. To locate goodness in thinking and doing the right thing, and to limit your desires to that. 35.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

She'd learned a lot of things from Zeb in his Urban Bloodshed Limitation classes: in Zeb's view, the first bloodshed to be limited should be your own.

He shouldn't have let himself be caged in here, walled off from freedom. But what does freedom mean any more? And who had caged him and walled him off? He'd done it himself. So many small choices.

Even if you think such things, why do you say them?" she scolded. "If you'd just think what you please but keep your mouth shut, everything would be so much nicer.

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.

What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me? Was it not foolish? was it not wrong? Yet, if I found such deep delight in thinking of him, and if I kept those thoughts to myself, and troubled no one else with them, where was the harm of it?