Quotes About Restraint

Through discipline comes freedom.

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

Moderation in all things.

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

All people are enslaved by something.

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert. He has learnt the secret of restraint, he has controlled himself. He goes through the streets of a big city with all its traffic, and his mind is as calm as if he were in a cave, where not a sound could reach him; and he is intensely working all the time. That is the ideal of Karma-Yoga

What is meant, therefore, by this mortification? Holding the rein firmly while guiding the body and the organs; not letting them do anything they like, but keeping them both under proper control.

Forbearance is the highest expression of freedom.

Y ou must avoid excessive merriment A mind in that state never becomes calm it becomes fickle