Quotes About Restraint

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

A man in armour is his armour's slave.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.

If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.

In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them.

Be stingy with your money! Don't splurge at the mall - and definitely don't give it to your boyfriend!

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband.

The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

I kept my clothes on. I borrowed money.

Don't spend your money till you have it.

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

You won't let me buy any clothes. Now you won't let me buy a road map, either! I need to spend some money or I'm going to go crazy!

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

You have to be courageous to not spend money, ... and we don't have many people who have that courage.