Quotes About Restraint

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

The mask is a pain thing. It's clammy, and your body is moving all over, and you're locked into this thing, and you can't get out.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won't spend yourself quickly.

If you want to be great in what you're doing, you really need to limit yourself, so I consider my life as the life of a monk.

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.

Someone once asked me what I missed most. I said, 'My youth.' I've never been a boy who could run around, go crazy, do this, try that. There wasn't time for that.

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

You've got to be really careful about what you say and do anywhere you are. I actually had a dream about being in parking garage and having somebody in front of me taking too long to get their change and honking the horn and then yelling back, and getting out and yelling at each other and then seeing it on YouTube the next day.

I definitely have to censor myself a lot of the time because I'm used to just being a loose cannon, and I'm used to doing and saying whatever I want because I work on YouTube.

The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.

It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.

My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.

Don't do anything to anyone, and people will not make trouble for you.