Quotes About Self-restraint

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. —AMBROSE BIERCE

To keep your head. quit while you are ahead.

Las verdaderas ataduras son las que uno escoge, las que se busca y se pone uno solo, pudiendo no tenerlas.

Let it be known that I only punched him once and not in the face.

the less androgynous the person, the likelier he or she was to be incapable of action if the appropriate action was not clearly delineated . . . How many women there were . . . who tore themselves or their families apart because they could not allow themselves any action or occupation that could appear manly, and might make their husbands appear less so. [pp. 132-133]

Never let 'em see you ache"; that's what Mr. Mayer always said. Or was it ass; "Never let 'em see your ass"?

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.

Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Talking too much, too soon, and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.

Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.

I am I (...) manacled to myself till the day I die.

Amazing, John thought as he stood behind Xhex. If you looked down at your cock and balls and told them that if they behaved badly you would slice them up and bury them in the backyard, they actually listened to you. He

Axe's erection was instantaneous, and he kept himself facing her as it rose. Even

Amazing, John thought as he stood behind Xhex. If you looked down at your cock and balls and told them that if they behaved badly you would slice them up and bury them in the backyard, they actually listened to you. He was going to have to remember this.

I don't do Twitter because I don't want to talk about myself more than I already have to.

To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much Just rememeber two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Be grateful to him who curses you, for he gives you a mirror to show what cursing is, also a chance to practise self-restraint; so bless him and be glad. Without exercise, power cannot come out; without the mirror, we cannot see ourselves.

Even at moments like this, there is a limit to how weird I am prepared to appear.

Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.