Quotes About Restraint

Yield nothing to love that is denied to discretion.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

I'm a pretty mellow guy, but I've got a fire burning inside, but you guys will probably never see that.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

The Queen is not supposed to have a favourite or prefer anything. From a very young age, they are taught that if you fall down, you don't make a face; you keep your emotions under control, and you don't let other people know what you're feeling. That's a very different kind of way of thinking from how I was brought up.

My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't approve of young girls leaving home until they married, so she had to pass it up.

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

I feel an image is a creeping jail growing all around you without you even realising it. Suddenly, you are trapped, and an actor should never be trapped.

Me being able to trash hotel rooms on set means I don't do it in real life.

Honestly, I don't like trash talk, because we gonna fight anyways, right? We don't need to trash talk.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Any known attempt at proselyting would be instantly amenable at a criminal tribunal and would probably be punished by the death of the proselyte and the banishment of the missionary. All efforts must be conducted in private and are therefore very limited.

There are several reasons to oppose tax increases. First, every dollar of tax increase is a dollar you didn't get in spending restraint. Two, if you walk into the Democrats' Andrews-Air-Force-Base, Lucy-with-the-Football trick for the third time in a row - they don't have have a saying for being fooled three times!

The trick to techno, as a connoisseur, is that you got to do two things: keep your hands down and your mouth shut.

Prisoner of Her Own Captivity

Truth cage your freedom... you are not anymore free have this in mind.

To be wise means to know when to stay silent.

Be wise and resist pleasures. A fool always seeks pleasures.

Control is an illusion, as is restraint. Dark to light, light to darkness.

We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.But how many people have verified that physically possible?