Quotes About Restraint

On God's part creation is not an act of self-expansion but of restraint and renunciation.

The Father of Glory does not lurk behind His Son with sinister intent to do us ill, restrained only by the cruel and bloody sacrifice His Son has made! No, a thousand times no! The Father loves us in the love of the Son and the love of the Spirit (John 16:27).

He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

OK.Now, I may be engaged, but I'm not going to get carried away.

Well, I don't howl. Not quite. But I feel like howling.

Think again, Electra. Don't say anymore. Don't you see what you're doing? You make your own pain. Why keep wounding yourself? With so much evil stored up in that cold dark soul of yours you breed enemies everywhere you touch.

In matters where I have no cognizance I hold my tongue.

forbear, or I shall hate thee soon, And the dead man will hate thee too, with cause. Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death.

Compassion limits even the power of God.

I need one food: I must not violate Elektra

Still the king, the master of all things? No more: here your power ends.

I don't know. And when I don't, I keep quiet.

No one with any sense of self-control.

If he cannot reap his profits fairly cannot restrain himself from outrage— mad, laying hands on the holy things untouchable!

Destaca-se a prudência sobremodo como a primeira condição para a felicidade. Não se deve ofender os deuses em nada. A desmedida empáfia nas palavras reverte em desmedidos golpes contra os soberbos que, já na velhice, aprendem afinal prudência.

The most powerful man in nothing without self-control and mental discipline.

When you are one of several, then you have lost your freedom; you cannot send for your traveling boots whenever you wish, you cannot move aimlessly about in the world. ~ Either/Or

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.