Quotes About Self-restraint

I feel myself battening down, fortressing

Now that you are a big girl, you must always be more careful and not show those feelings', Alexandra reiterated. 'One must not let others see what one feels inside.'15

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned to put it out.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

My tongue is my enemy. Brothers

What does it mean that thirty thousand men, not athletes but rather weak and ordinary people, have subdued two hundred million vigorous, clever, capable, and freedom-loving people? Do not the figures make it clear that it is not the English who have enslaved the Indians, but the Indians who have enslaved themselves?

Humility grounds a person in the realization that life is not always fair, yet it can be manageable. Genuinely humble people are psychologically secure because they do not require others to dote on them, nor do they try to position themselves for favored treatment. Even as they lay down the wish to play God, they also choose not toe allow another human to assume the position of a god over them.

If he couldn't go back, he would just have to do things differently going forward. He felt how infinitely safer and more sound this attitude was. The trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

I used to bottle up all of my emotions and never say anything. Even if something really made me mad, I'd be quiet.

I was never that kid who used to brag about anything.

If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

WELL THEN FINE, she would just keep her visions to herself. Until she had another great one, anyway.

I'm calm!" Cricket said. She realized she was bouncing on her front talons and forced herself to sit on her tail and stay still. "SO TOTALLY CALM.

To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.

Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

Be cautious of what is within you; block off what is outside you, for much knowledge will do you harm.

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.

The world can only be limitless and boundless if you let it control yourself and rule over you.

We all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them.

You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.