Quotes About Self-restraint

Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face?

I'm always running my mouth off and getting myself in trouble, so I'm trying to do it less.

Well, put that lovely treasure back in your pants and calm down.

As she'd grown, she moved through life in silence, hoping not to be noticed, afraid of drawing attention to herself.

Thank God I didn't kill him. I wanted to bash him one but, you know, without the consequences of him dying.

Vittorio practiced discipline at all times. This was one of those times when he needed to stay very calm. Deep inside, the volcano that could emerge was at a boiling point.

It spoke to me, that anger. I didn't realize how angry I'd been until it was in the air, infecting everyone. But as always, I held it inside.

Instead, she did what she'd always done in the face of a painful rejection: she disappeared and held her tongue and waited

He seldom spoke his thoughts and still more rarely, and then only in anger, did he speak his feelings, because to expose them made him feel naked, and worse than naked—flayed.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

she had saved herself for this, stored her love within her so that this book, which could not possibly have been written for any purpose but to crawl inside her and dwell there like a holy thing, so that this book would not be ashamed of her profligacy.

He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.

You can ask for things, but you can't just reach out and take things as if it's your right." A

A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.

I could not stop talking, though I feared at every instant that I would say too much. Perhaps I wanted to say too much.

large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So

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You must learn to control the filth of your tongue, my son. It will send you to hell.

My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.

Even when I got ?500 a month as pocket money, I would never spend all of it. It's the same now. I am just conscious of the fact that I wasn't born with a silver spoon.

My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.