Quotes About Restraint

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

It takes a lot for me to be excited.

I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist.

We, as lawyers, must point out that unrestrained power is almost always abusive.

I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.

I think everyone has a door in their brain that says, 'Do not exit here.' If you go past it, you'll find all the dumb thoughts in there, all the stupid things that shouldn't be said. I've probably gone there more than anyone should in a given lifetime.

I'm not the type of person who enjoys the limelight.

I'm not one for the limelight I suppose.

When you're in the limelight, you can't always lash out.

I don't seek the limelight.

The most effective thing we can do is to limit spending.

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

I think it's important to know your limitations too.

Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.

Limited government is best.

Sometimes it's good to know there are limits.

It's about not going to the well all the time. The body has limits. The mind has limits, too.

I'm a strong person, but every man has his limits.

I've always been political but I don't like to bring it into my work any more because I think it limits me.

I have to know my limits.

You can keep a person locked up too long.

I have a 48-hour rule. No drinking two days before a start. But those other days? Yes, I'm gonna go out. If I was locked up in my house all week, I don't know what I'd be like on the baseball field.