Quotes About Self-restraint

The only limits we have are the ones we give ourselves.

A wise man does not eat his seed even in the time of hunger, he knows the value of his seed!

He who rules his spirit, shall conquer himself.

Self-discipline is never simple.

The only limits you have are the ones you put on yourself

No harm comes to an honest man who minds his own business and knows his place.

He had a favorite sentence which he always used to conclude his harangues on such matters: No harm comes to an honest man who minds his own business and knows his place.

When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.

Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variations on a theme of vigilance and self-restraint that I've watched women dance to all my life, that I've danced to myself instinctively and still have to work to resist.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

I don't hang out. I don't go to clubs, ever. I don't party.

I knew better, even as a child, than to even attempt to compete with Donald.

I don't complain.

I don't like to complain.

If you want to surround yourself with a lot of people and be pampered then that is a decision you make yourself. Personally I don't do it and I don't feel the need to do it.

So he held toward them an attitude of iron reserve; he lived with them, but behind a wall, a curtain. And toward himself he was even more exacting.

Edward was the lone contrarian. He prided himself on not hoping, on not allowing his heart to lift inside of him. He prided himself on keeping his heart silent, immobile, closed tight.

This is her power move: letting an alpha male keep talking and waiting patiently as he self-destructs.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.

We must be careful not to create our own fetters or our own inflexibility.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.