Quotes About Restraint

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

Freedom is the silence of the law.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.

How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?

True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do's and don'ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains.

Too many things can be free in this world, but freedom is never among them.

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?

A word of advice don't give it.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

You are the master of your emotions; you can keep them under control!

Power consists not in being able to strike another, but in being able to control oneself when anger arises.

Self control leads to obedience and obedience leads to dedication.

Girls can control their temptations but not their emotions. Guys can control their emotions but not their temptations...

A disciplined person not only knows how to say 'no' to themselves but 'no' to other people when they need to.

A powerful person is not he who out-wrestles others. A powerful person is he who can control himself when angry.

Don't lose your worth while trying to get back at someone who had wronged you.