Quotes About Self-restraint

She stared at him, doing her best to hold back all the tumbling mass of emotions hitting her at once. Normally she was good at that, really good, but naturally her one really good life skill deserted her, leaving everything she felt all over her face. Annoyance. Embarrassment. And let's not forget the very reluctant lust.

There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

I looked, noted details mechanically, and quietly shut the door on the part of my head that had started screaming the second I entered the room.

she was something much more dangerous than that. She was disciplined, rigidly self-restrained, and she didn't give way to either the demonic parasite that made her a monster or anyone else who would try to force her into doing something she didn't want to do.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

This Lent, I'm giving up making jokes about what I'm giving up.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

Do not spit into the well that you might need to drink out of.

Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

Dont forget three rules for success : Never tell anyone everything you have, you know and you can do.

Anger is the condition where the tongue works faster than the mind. So hold it, before you regret the words you say.

This opportunity shall not come again! I say to you, O my body, listen to my advice! You slander, and then praise others; you indulge in lies and gossip. You gaze upon the wives of others, O my soul; you steal and commit evil deeds.

He who knows how to beg can always leave his money at home.

There are things that you don't do when you know that people are watching you.

punishment, or anything of the kind, has in him the capacity to become a powerful moral giant. It is hard to do it, but in the heart of our hearts we know its value, and the good it brings. It is the greatest manifestation of power — this tremendous restraint; self-restraint is a manifestation of greater power than all outgoing action. A

I'm never going to have a crush on a girl," he promised himself. "It makes you look like a sick sheep.

How can you not help having sex with someone?

The greatest possession is Self-possession.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

I have marveled at, and sometimes openly questioned, the self-restraint God has shown throughout history, allowing the Genghis Khans and the Hitlers and the Stalins to have their way. But nothing - nothing - compares to the self-restraint shown that dark Friday in Jerusalem.

Don't waste your courage on hating him. Keep yourself to yourself. And keep up your courage.

O beloved Pan and all ye other gods of this place, grant to me that I be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external possessions be in harmony with my inner man. May I consider the wise man rich; and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure. -Socrates

O beloved Pan and all ye other gods of this place, grant to me that I be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external possessions be in harmony with my inner man. May I consider the wise man rich; and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.