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Quotes About Self-restraint

I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'
~ Jude Law
I feel lonely at times, but I don't want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I'm not the type of person who just does things to do them.
~ Tom Cruise
I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.
~ Terrell Owens
Never have too good a time
~ Steve Greenberg
I would never slam my iPhone, and I never punched a metal door frame for any time.
~ Andy Hurley
Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't.
~ Max von Sydow
You should never ask anyone for anything. Never—and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself. They will make the offer and they will give of their own accord
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
We've been testing you,' said Woland. 'Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves. Sit down, proud woman
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
in his whole life he had never acted as he wished to act. He considered himself the administrator of his own immortality, and that responsibility tied him down and turned him stiff and prim.
~ Milan Kundera
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~ Milan Kundera
Only a teaspoon of self-pity, girl. Every day give yourself a teaspoonful, but only a teaspoonful. Fill it up full, but only once! Don't let yourself have more. You can't live off it. But just a bit of it is like a tonic.
~ Breena Clarke
The secret to success and enjoyment in so many parts of life is to know your capabilities and stay within them. Similarly, the key to success in investing is to know yourself and invest within your investing capabilities and within your emotional capacities.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
Sometimes letting out the anger is an even more grievous mistake than holding it in.
~ Terry Goodkind
Is It Frightening To Be Free? You said it. You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves? Seems to be a major human activity, yes.
~ Terry Pratchett
You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?
~ Terry Pratchett
People should mind their own business. This particularly applies to those who are inquisitive, and those who jump to conclusions.
~ Arbaaz Khan
I'm not going to blurt out my whole life on the Internet and just be all crazy emotional. I'm not that type of person, but it's in my music.
~ Justine Skye
I am one of those people who are really short-tempered, but I don't lose it unless it is justified.
~ R. Madhavan
I'm not someone who makes people stand and keep talking and falling on their lap.
~ Sana Khan
You can't do something stupid at any time. If you do, you're going to get technicals or flagrant fouls, or you're going to get kicked out of the game or whatever.
~ Christian Laettner
It's not important to me that everyone knows everything about me or that I reveal all that I am or have.
~ Troy Aikman
Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.
~ Kate Ross
Society depends on parents to instill in their children a healthy sense of self-restriction, and that is not as hard as some people make it out to be.
~ Gary Ezzo
I gave it some thought, then decided he was probably right. There was no sense blowing everything for the sake of some violent ape I'd never even met.
~ Hunter S. Thompson