Quotes About Restraint

Tame your tongue. If you sometimes overreact emotionally, a first step to improvement is to stop yourself from saying things you shouldn't. The next time you want to lash out, hold your tongue for five minutes, and give yourself a chance to cool down and look at things more rationally. Use this strategy repeatedly and you will find yourself in better command of your emotions.

Sometimes the best thing we can do for someone else is to hold our tongue. When tempted to give advice that's not wanted, to show off, to say "I told you so," or to point out another's error, the best policy is to say nothing. As nineteenth-century British journalist George Sala advised, we should strive "not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

in those days I didn't drink, smoke, swear, or speak Italian.

I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and that he was no more free to fall in love with a strange woman he saw on a street corner than he was to take a walking trip through French Guiana or to recommence his life in Chicago under an assumed name.

Don't get too attached to someone you know you can't be together with.

You better not show that video to anyone.

Do you ever write a really long message and about halfway through you're like you know what, they don't even care and end up deleting it.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

Throwing lamps at people who need to lighten the f*ck up.

The best revenge is not to become like the one who wronged you.

It`s not so much that they don`t want me to grow up. It`s that they`re annoyed that I`m growing up adjusted. They`d much rather I was growing up and going wild and crashing cars.

Wishing you can sometimes punch someone in the face with no consequences.

I think I'd be willing to risk a cracked screen just to throw my iPhone at my boyfriend's head sometimes.

One of the hardest things to do, is control someone. One of the worst things, is succeeding at it.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.