Quotes About Restraint

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

The greatest possession is Self-possession.

I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.

Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

On pain of death, no person be so bold.

Hämningar växer inte på träd förstår ni - det behövs tålamod, det behövs koncentration, det behövs en hängiven och självuppoffrande förälder och ett hårt arbetande, uppmärksamt litet barn för att på bara några år skapa en riktigt hämmad och knuten och förstoppad människa.

El sexo es lo que desordena nuestras vidas normalmente ordenadas.

imaginación, y mi tarea en cuanto artista no consistía en desarrollar a mi imaginación, sino en contenerla, lo cual ya entonces me pareció imposible, porque todo era tan increíble que

So we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright.

Although Jesus' prayers do not offer a foolproof formula, they do give clues as to how God works — and does not work — on this planet. Especially when trouble strikes, we want God to intervene more decisively, but Jesus' prayers underscore God's style of restraint out of respect for human freedom.

I have marveled at, and sometimes openly questioned, the self-restraint God has shown throughout history, allowing the Genghis Khans and the Hitlers and the Stalins to have their way. But nothing - nothing - compares to the self-restraint shown that dark Friday in Jerusalem.

One should never offend more men than one can persuade

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.

Are not they temperate from a kind of intemperance?

He who desires to be happy must pursue and practice temperance and run away from intemperance as fast as his legs will carry him.

Temperance, I replied, is the ordering or controlling of certain pleasures and desires; this is curiously enough implied in the saying of 'a man being his own master;' and other traces of the same notion may be found in language. No

The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.