Quotes About Self-restraint

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

Life is in favor of those who are blessed with emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence, and positive behavior.

But they are not risks of our own making, and we cannot make the danger vanish by pretending that it does not exist. We must be prepared to meet that danger with sober self-restraint and calm and judicious action if we are to be successful in our leadership for peace.

I don't confuse my digestive system, I just season simple food with hunger

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

Be careful when building walls to protect yourself. Those same walls may cage you in.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

He who reigns within himself, and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

A man needs enough...no less, no more.

After years of brushing up against all kinds of people in the public eye, I've learned that great leaders are first of all great servants—and that great service is modest, understated, in speech and action. Understatement is self-restraint, and self-restraint is hardly a sign of weakness. On the contrary, wisely used, few things carry more power.

My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave.

Knock yourself out... Or rather, don't.

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

I did not say how I was feeling to anyone. To say how I was feeling would lead to feeling more of what I was feeling. To act normal would be to feel a bit more normal. I acted normal.

Sve sam ve? znao o njoj, odavno: sigurna u sebe i zato neranjiva, uvjerena u svoju snagu, jer je hladna, lojalna a odro?ena, kalu?erica svog osje?anja samostalnosti, ponosna na kostrijet samoj sebi nametnutih ograni?enja. Muškarce ne podsti?u na osvajanje, vec na dužnost, ako dožive ljubav, nastoja?e da je svedu na razumnu mjeru.

Quem pede sempre, não sabe querer.

I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.