Quotes About Self-restraint

Bragging actually dilutes the positive feelings you receive from an accomplishment or something you are proud of. To make matters worse, the more you try to prove yourself, the more others will avoid you, talk behind your back about your insecure need to brag, and perhaps even resent you.

The idea is that criminals are distinctive in psychological (perhaps even biological) ways. They are deficient, depending on the particular theory, in conscience or in self-restraint. They lack normal attachment to the mores of their culture, or they are peculiarly indifferent to the feelings or the good opinion of others. They

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

Few men can afford to be angry.

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

I don't know if this sounds bad, but I am set. I don't spend my money. I don't buy cars or have an expensive drug habit. The only thing I've ever bought with the money I've made is my house.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.

When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.

Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs

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.

Watch it, ' her mom snapped. 'Don't start a fight just because it's the easiest thing to do.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.