Quotes About Self-restraint

You'll love again, but you must teach your heart some self-restraint; for each and every man won't understand it as I have... learn from my belief that inexperience leads to grief.

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?

stay silent, say nothing, and maybe people would like you. And if you didn't tell them what an embarrassing mess you were, maybe they wouldn't notice.

harness your own power though what you keep to yourself

I won't argue with you, but still it's secretly turning me into a hateful person. I figure that the best revenge, though, is to leave people to their own devices, and they will make their own lives hell.

thinking I meant to snatch this treat for myself, but I pushed

I don't drink at all.

The dressing room is not the place where you show emotion.

I have never been a person to build empires.

I've had relationships with people from all over the world, but there has never been enough time in a day for me to have anything other than just close relationships. I've never been one to give myself over to anybody. I don't know what is wrong with me, but it never happened.

We must recognize in each virtue its own positive excellence and follow its positive ideal, and the ideal of self-restraint is to keep our mind level

Moderation He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door Embittering all his state Horace, from Odes, Book II, translated by William Cowper

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

put a wall around myself that kept me literally out of touch with my own feelings.

The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.

Any smidgen of emotion revealed would crack the careful mask of control and leave the person in pieces.

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.

A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.

He who desires naught will always be free.

Be a master of yourself.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist.