Quotes About Self-restraint

Remember, all you really get to control is yourself.

He ought to have been taught better than to let his emotions show on his face. Instead, he assumed that others would care about his feelings, so he didn't bother to hide them.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

A great finisher needs to keep a lid on his emotions

I took a sip. The taste was bitter and thin, just as I would be if I had to keep the Dark Passenger buckled into his seat belt for very long.

Protect me from what I want.

Oh, she said, that, and loosened her grip. She must've heard this question a hundred times, because she turned away and looked out the window. There's meat sewn in the corset, she said more quietly. Beef liver and offal. She shrugged. Provides some extra here, too. She patted her chest. The cat knows that if he growls but refrains from biting, he'll get a fine meal. And now she glanced at the driver again. Me too, I guess. If I growl, but don't bite, I get to eat.

But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I was so motivated and thought that if I did I wouldn't succeed.

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.

Don't sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people's zones of expertise and responsibility. Monitor troublesome situations if you need to, but don't insert yourself unless you're running out of time and a solution is nowhere in sight. In short, stifle your inner control freak.

Sell not your liberty to gratify your luxury

Hamish Alexander stood on Benjamin the Great 's flag deck with his hands clasped behind him and tried very hard not to feel a sense of godlike power.

You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

If a man makes the world his castle, he does not seek to furnish it.

La codicia te daña: la generosidad te ayuda. Es por esto que se ha dicho: "La codicia es la madre de la incapacidad.

Out of every one of those who have nothing to say, the nicest are those who keep it for themselves.

I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.

I'm a pretty controlled and disciplined person, but my real vice is buying plants and food shopping.

Losing his temper was a luxury he rarely permitted himself, but for the past week he'd been invaded by a sullen gloom that weighted every thought and heartbeat, and made him want to lash out at anyone within reach. All because of a woman he had known better than to want. Lady Helen Ravenel... a woman who was cultured, innocent, shy, aristocratic. Everything he was not.

It is so easy to do a dirty thing with self-satisfaction when it consists in abstaining from action.

For your own professionalism, reputation and appearance, it really is ok to not post every video, picture, event or show on social media. On the contrary, holding back, waiting or not posting certain things all together can help much more than hurt.