Quotes About Self-restraint

It has always been the Rule of my Life, not to justify any Words or Actions because they are mine.

I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his face. I didn't say that out loud, of course. I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

While unconstitutional exercise of power by the executive and legislative branches of the government is subject to judicial restraint, the only check upon our own exercise of power is our own sense of self-restraint. For the removal of unwise laws from the statute books appeal lies not to the courts but to the ballot and to the processes of democratic government.

I shouldn't have hit him at all but it was only a little jab in the belly and it helped him to sober up still more.

I said briskly, trying not to shriek and climb the walls like a girly-girl.

You know me, I'm not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn't matter.

The only limitations one has, are the ones they place on themselves

Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself.

A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

I've never jumped back into a relationship and I've never had a one-night stand, so even if lockdown hadn't happened, I don't think I would have been with any guys.

I keep my opinions to myself. I've always said that everyone is free to think what you like.

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

The ability to control impulse is the base of will and character. By the same token, the root of altruism lies in empathy, the ability to read emotions in others; lacking a sense of another's need or despair, there is no caring. And if there are any two moral stances that our times call for, they are precisely these, self-restraint and compassion.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

He thought everything out carefully before acting; and therefore remained a bachelor all his life long.

in politics, as in love, it does not do to give one's self wholly; one should at all times give, but at no time all. Gratitude is nourished with expectation.

And if I wasn't able to bar anger, or her insidious cousin, irritation, From my heart, at least some of the time I bit back the sharp comments that I had prided myself on dispensing so freely all these years.

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.