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Quotes About Self-restraint

I am not comfortable, being in the limelight and I think that's fine. When I have to, I talk. Otherwise, I prefer not to.
~ Akshaye Khanna
I am not a person who wants to be in the limelight all the time.
~ Padmapriya Janakiraman
All of us should do what we want and have to do. We can only limit ourselves.
~ Nell Carter
I learned you don't put limitations on yourself.
~ Brad Stevens
I can't show, let alone share, my emotions. In fact, I've kept it all locked up within myself all my life. Yeah, it's a problem, especially when it comes to relationships with the people close to me.
~ Vijay Deverakonda
I'm not a control maniac.
~ John Malkovich
For a moment it seemed as if he was going to lose his temper too. His strange, pale eyes all but glared at Sophie. But he controlled himself and said, Now trot along indoors, you overactive old thing, and find something else to play with before I get angry. I hate getting angry.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.
~ J.D. Robb
I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't." "That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.
~ J.R. Ward
She'd feel better later on if she'd kept a few of these things to herself, Joel thought. Or would she. I would. But I'm not Poll.
~ James Agee
Only himself manacles man.
~ James Allen
It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.
~ Luke Rhinehart
I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.
~ Lynda Barry
I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!
~ Nick Carter
Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.
~ Erik Erikson
Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain.
~ John Fletcher
It's not about what you didn't feel, it's about what you didn't show.
~ Unknown
Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free, he is his own trap.
~ Unknown
Sexy is when a woman has everything to flaunt, but chooses not to show it.
~ Unknown
Create your own limits and build within them.
~ Unknown
I'm saying pay attention to when it makes sense to say something," Vann said. "And pay attention to when it makes sense to hold it in for the moment. I get that you're used to saying what you think to anyone, anytime. That comes from being an entitled rich kid.
~ John Scalzi
They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.
~ John Steinbeck
I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.
~ Christian Bale
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
~ Aldous Huxley