Quotes About Self-restraint

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.

I know I admitted to being in love with Nasir Hussain in 'The Hit Girl', but as much as I loved him, I could never consider breaking up his family and traumatising his children. It was far simpler and satisfying to be on my own.

I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.

His was not, I could see now, the heroism of an Achilles. He was not a superman who waded invulnerably into the slaughter, single-handedly slaying the foe by myriads. He was just a man doing a job. A job whose primary attribute was self-restraint and self-composure, not for his own sake, but for those whom he led by his example.

the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

The capacity for empathy and self-restraint will serve us powerfully, not only in our external wars but in the conflicts within our own hearts.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.

I vulgarize my feelings by speaking of them too readily to others.

No, I'm not going to forget it, I've spent my life forgetting things, not saying them, never telling anyone what I really want.

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.

I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

My rule is never to look at anything on the Internet.

Her tears were not for public consumption, she used to say. (216)

Romantic Egoist Nozomi: You've got an idea in your head... how you should act, but you can't act like, so you stifle yourself and don't even try.

There are certain thoughts that, no matter what, you have to keep inside.

That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't." "That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.

He announces that lately he keeps losing things. Like your wife and child, I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.