Quotes About Restraint

If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it.

Want to come one step closer to wisdom? Then you have to train yourself unconditionally in forbearance.

if you can't control yourself, you will be controlled by others—choose your master.

The line between the allure of liberty and the menace of of anarchy is often blurred." From: Caspian Diary

One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us

Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone.

You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.

If there is one thing above all others a successful man should know, it is when to stop.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Can't punch women in the face!

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.

I drink no more than a sponge.

I rarely ever do anything crazy, I really like to be careful to stay in a safe spot, I don't want to do anything, like, insane. I have a lot of people around me to make sure I don't do anything crazy.

I try to stay out of the spotlight.

I've been careful, too careful maybe, about trying to not keep the spotlight on me.

When 'American Slang' came out, everyone was like, 'This is the next big band in the world, and this is blah blah blah Bruce Springsteen Junior and blah blah blah,' and I was just like, 'I don't know what that means. I don't know. We'll see.'

Just as I don't like it when other coaches question my squads and my line-ups, I won't talk about others.

When you talk to police communications staff and think about their job from an insider's point of view, you can see they have to inch out along a razor's edge every day. They have a duty to be honest. But there's also a responsibility not to inflame.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

The first rule of show business is get off the stage while people still want more.

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.