Quotes About Self-restraint

Lucy, indeed, was not demonstrative: and she was, moreover, one of those few persons — for they are very few — who are contented to go on with their existence without making themselves the centre of any special outward circle. To the ordinary run of minds it is impossible not to do this.

For to people of that sort, just as to those lacking self-restraint,15 knowledge is without benefit. But to those who fashion their longings in accord with reason and act accordingly, knowing about these things would be of great profit.

Among people lacking self-restraint, those apt to be impulsive40 are better than those who are in possession of an argument [logos] but do not abide by it. For

Rather be a thin dog that is free than a fat one chained

This statesman was no conqueror, but his superiority consisted in his moral conquest; this President vanquished no foreign people, and his superiority lay in his self-constraint; this excellent judge of human nature cast a spell over nobody, yet is more fascinating than the shining victors of history.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

One of the most important rules of the science of manners is an almost absolute silence in regard to yourself.

This kind of holy envy comes with its own safeguard. Although I am allowed to admire what is growing in the well-tended fields of my religious neighbors, I am not allowed to pull off the road and help myself. The things I envy have their own terroir, their own long histories of weather and fertilization. They do not exist to serve me, improve me, or profit me.

Although I am allowed to admire what is growing in the well-tended fields of my religious neighbors, I am not allowed to pull off the road and help myself. The things I envy have their own terroir , their own long histories of weather and fertilization. They do not exist to serve me, improve me, or profit me. They have their own dominion.

spine. She told herself not to get carried away. He was

Heightened emotion potentially posed another threat more serious than bad skin: hysteria. Doctors diagnosed the condition as a woman's disease, believed to originate in the womb and to demonstrate female frailty and fallibility. Girls around puberty were particularly susceptible, doctors worried, to the fits and seizures hysteria could induce. How important it was, then, for a young woman to exercise self-restraint and to remain in a limited arena: the home.

Sometimes a person needs to keep things to himself. You don't tell me everything and that's fine. We all need to keep some stuff locked away. If we didn't, we could end up getting hurt.

I try to stay out of her way. This is just something I do. I avoid her. [...] I don't want her to see me too often, to encounter me, to deal with me. Me, this walking, talking, living, breathing, eating, shitting, farting reminder of what she's had and what she's lost. [...] I don't linger in the house. I sleep in late, stay out late, keep my bedroom door closed when I'm home. I make myself invisible, intangible. It's easier for her, it's easier for me, just easier, period.

There are no stronger fetters than those we forge for ourselves.

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power.

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

To be honest, I've never told anybody they have bad breath. When I do recognize that, I try not to breathe when they come near.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

But hunger is pride's master...

But I never stated not anything, by no means allow on; stored it to myself; it's the high-quality way; you then don't haven't any quarrels, and don't get into no trouble.

Me mordí el labio y contuve el llanto tan instantáneamente que creo que las lágrimas se pararon en seco a medio camino de mis mejillas.