Quotes About Self-restraint

I'm not a drinker -- my body will not tolerate spirits. I had two Martinis on New Year's Eve and I tried to hijack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.

Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

had long thought we would be a far more respectable family if our motto had been "I sit quietly in the corner and mind my own business.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.

All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

I didn't say a word. I just stared at him. I figured I didn't owe him an answer, and I was too proud to even talk. I didn't want to tell him a damn thing about me.

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. It's

Never show how smart you are, dears, or someone will envy you.

Sternly she tried to frown the unseemly sensation down. Burgeon, indeed. She had heard of dried staffs, pieces of mere dead wood, suddenly putting forth fresh leaves, but only in legend. She was not in legend. She knew perfectly what was due to herself. Dignity demanded that she should have nothing to do with fresh leaves at her age; and yet there it was--the feeling that presently, that at any moment now, she might crop out all green.

We ought to be making North some now," he said with the utmost restraint.

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Inability is a disaster; patience is bravery; abstinence is a treasure, self-restraint is a shield; and the best companion is submission to Divine Will.

At worst, they were vile creatures who needed to be wiped from the face of the earth. At best, such behavior shows a dangerous lack of self-control. The first business of a warrior is self-restraint

I will never give him the satisfaction of knowing how much he has wounded and enraged me. In my silence lies my strength.

Or maybe crying is like everything else we do- it's best if you don't get caught.

For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indulgences. I can't just be scoffing cakes and biscuits five nights a week.

You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.

I'm not gonna be one of those guys who's going to do the Conor McGregor effect and talk a bunch of crap to make money.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.

I don't like talking about myself.