Quotes About Self-restraint

You are a prisoner of sorts, and yet you have made yourself so.

rolling in, even though I knew better.

He makes me feel all jiggly inside. STOP FEELING. Stop caring.

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 Ã¢â'¬Â¦

My ambition is to stop showing off. I'd love to be a tweedy academic. I'd be happy living in a croft. I like making jam. So why am I a semi-public figure?

After I win a contest the only thing I allow myself to do is buy a little bit of jewelry - but that's only if I win. And that's about it.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Shannon's fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool.

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Most people make themselves look bad. I just stand to the side and don't get in the way.

A person can carry his own persecutor, his own prison, about with him, Monseigneur. He can - as you know - die of thirst even when he has the clearest water within his reach. To be free...not to be free...it is all relative. No one has to drag along more ballast than he wants to and he who allows himself to be bound is a fool. The biggest fools are those who wear shackles of cobwebs and believe themselves to be helpless.

It was the most important art a person could learn: self-control.

for my greatest skill has been to want but little.

But worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself

That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe—That government is best which governs not at all; and

my greatest skill has been to want but little

Le gouvernement le meilleur est celui qui gouverne le moins

He envied Miss Barrace at any rate her power of not being.

Down South we've always believed that if a man had intellectual abilities, they would show through on their own without his having to brag about them.

I think everyone knows that I keep myself to myself and I don't get involved in trash talk or anything else.

If I started talking trash right now, people would just tell me to shut up, 'That's not you, Stephen - be quiet!'

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

Thirty two men keep guarding the tongue. Since it keeps a sense, still speaks non sense.