Quotes About Restraint

I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

What is done let us leave alone.

The heaviest shackles and chains one can wear are those they cannot see. A slave with unseen shackles is the most bound.

true liberation is freedom from our own automatic responses.

I was doing it again, and I do NOT ogle strangers.

I've shackled myself with the prison bars of ill health.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.

A prudent man will not discover his poverty, his self-torments, the disorders of his house, his uneasiness, or his disgrace.

Frugality should ever be practised, but not excessive parsimony.

A caged bird set free may be caught again, a hurtful word that escapes your lips will not return

Shut me up, Turn me on, Shut me up,

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by… What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

What was the use of propriety when it kept one from getting things done?

We shall listen, not lecture learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Restraints upon our natural inclinations, which left to themselves do not automatically lead us to do what is good for us and often indeed lead us to evil, are not only necessary; they are the indispensable condition of civilized existence.

The first requirement of civilisation is that men should be willing to repress their basest instincts and appetites: failure to do which makes them, on account of their intelligence, far worse than mere beasts.

The prevention of evil will always require more than desirable social arrangements: it will forever require personal self-control and the conscious limitation of appetites.

ideological aim: to subvert the very concept and deny the possibility of virtue, and therefore of the necessity for restraint.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

At the least, bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully. And although thou be very unwilling to hear it, and feel indignation, yet check thyself, and suffer no unadvised word to come forth from thy lips, whereby the little ones may be offended. Soon the storm which hath been raised shall be stilled, and inward grief shall be sweetened by returning grace.