Quotes About Self-restraint

I just hate talking about myself.

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up

I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.

I really don't care what you do, but maybe it'll keep you busy enough that you'll stop coming over here unannunced and throwing yourself at creatures of darkness.

Now you know how I fooled you," he would say. "Try to figure out on your own how your congressmen and clergymen fool you. There is no restraint that isn't self-imposed: you are all absolutely free.

She rearranged her legs again. If she kept doing that, it was possible that I might begin to bugle like a stallion. Which would not be dignified.

both practicing restraint.

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns

as much as I'd like to lick chocolate syrup off your body, I want you to shut up.

No more thoughts about his mouth and which of her body parts would fit inside. No. None of that. He'd think about something completely different. Like her mouth and which of his body parts would fit inside.

The guidance counselor had never married; had hardly even dated. It was better, easier, he had decided, not to disturb anyone with his love or his sadness.

each of us rules himself, or at least tries to do so. It is not an easy thing to do, as you probably know.

Don't talk much and save your dignity.

Just because you don't share it on social media, doesn't mean you're not up to big things. Live it and stay low key. Privacy is everything.

Are you sulking?" "Me? No. I don't sulk." "You sound like you're sulking." "I'm just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

A person has to keep something to herself or you're life is just a layout in a magazine.

You don't know how it is. It's like I've got this angry little person inside me, and I can feel him trying to get out. He's running out of room because he's growing bigger and bigger, and so he starts rising up, into my lungs, chest, throat, and I just push him right back down. I don't want him to come out. I can't let him out.

No person is free who is not master of himself.

Whatever moral rules you have deliberately proposed to yourself. abide by them as they were laws, and as if you would be guilty of impiety by violating any of them. Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.