Quotes About Self-restraint

Is there anything else you need to tell me?" Every time I look at you, I have to put a leash on myself. "No.

When we assert our reason as our authority for dominion, we must use that authority reasonably. When we assert free will as our distinctive human quality, we must use our free will not only in acts of self-interest but in acts of self-restraint.

To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.--Dominique Francon

Me siento incómodo, pero me aguanto, porque considero que cada quien tiene derecho a expresarse como pueda. Es mi filosofía.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Just tell him to keep his hands to himself and his python in his pants.

I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing.

You can say that I cut off on my non-vegetarian food, chocolates and ice cream and nothing else.

I think sometimes people look to players to act out, speak loudly, pretty much be an idiot. But that's not me.

I have no inclination to seek attention.

The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.

A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.

Justice] demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.

I don't drink anymore, I don't go up the town and I'm not interested in events and parties.

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small,' I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. 'Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.' I got all of these sayings at my tongue's end, used to go through the streets of Chicago muttering them to myself.

My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry.

When speaking of love, and suffering a broken heart, the student said, 'You can't drown if you vow to never swim again.' To which the master replied, 'You will also never choke if you don't eat.'

At my age, a man husbands his resources. He says nothing that he does not really mean.

Even Christ Himself turned His back on Satan. Wouldn't He turn His back on me? I could feel the evilness flowing through my body and waiting, pent up, to rush off my tongue if I tried to open my mouth. I clamped my teeth shut, I'd hold it in. If it escaped, wouldn't it flood the world and all the innocent people?

I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it.

At one point I muttered, "You learn something new every day." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.

have you not had your morning glass of shut up?

I believe in being able to reserve things to yourself. That's the way I was brought up.