Quotes About Self-restraint

for your part, do not desire to be a general, or a senator, or a consul, but to be free; and the only way to this is a disregard of things which lie not within our own power.

With every accident, ask yourself what abilities you have for making a proper use of it. If you see an attractive person, you will find that self-restraint is the ability you have against your desire. If you are in pain, you will find fortitude. If you hear unpleasant language, you will find patience. And thus habituated, the appearances of things will not hurry you away along with them.

there is but one way to freedom - to despise what is not in our power.

At a feast, do not give a speech about how everyone should eat. Only eat as you should. Socrates never made a spectacle of himself or put on an air of authority. In philosophical conversations, follow his example—stay mostly silent; ask questions and listen intently. If anyone calls you ignorant and says you know nothing, be sure that you are now a true student of philosophy.

No man is free unless he is the master of himself.

No person is free who is not master of themselves.

Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to ensure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.

En chacun de nous existe un Mr Hyde; le tout est d'empêcher que les conditions d'émergence du monstre ne soient rassemblées.

Jamais je ne m'abaisserai à dire ce que je ne pense pas, mais je peux parfaitement m'abstenir de dire tout ce que je pense.

And now Kit's cock—which had mostly been used for taking a leak before that moment—woke up and screamed I WANT! FEED ME ASSHOLE! And Kit had given it a good handshake until it threw up.

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

I would prefer to keep my clothes on. Unless there's a brisk breeze or something, I tend to keep them on.

Generally in my films like 'Hearts of Darkness' or 'Picture This,' I try not to make myself a presence in the film.

I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business.

There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.

I'm an improvisational actor. I like to do my own thing. But once in a while, I think you should have the self-restraint to let someone else dictate the story.

I've managed to avoid tattoos so far.

I was going to ruin everything, right here and right now. I'm really not good with impulse control.

You never escape the traps you spin yourself.

That is called Sheathing the Sword. Remember it.