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Quotes About Restraint

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.
~ Michael Chiklis
Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is why you think that to build a place like this is simple. Hammond: It was simple. Malcolm: Then why did it go wrong?
~ Michael Crichton
He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.
~ Unknown
I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.
~ Michael Finkel
132) Lips sealed In order to prevent early leaks
~ Unknown
Boa Constrictor
~ Unknown
Remember: any fool can argue about anything, but it takes someone strong to hold their tongue to a fool.
~ Unknown
We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.
~ Michael Irvin
An unrestrained security apparatus has throughout history been one of the principal reasons that free governments have failed.
~ Unknown
I've never liked eating sweets, so waving a box of chocolates in front of me won't get my attention. For some people, chocolate is a severe temptation. But put me in a well-stocked bookstore and I'll have to restrain myself from buying all those wonderful reference books!
~ Unknown
To be educated is to know how much one wishes to know and to have the courage not to be tempted beyond this limit .
~ Michael Oakeshott
If you can't fuck it... blow it up.
~ Michael O'Donoghue
After lots of lectures, warnings, punishments and so on, Eddy had decided to watch his step for a while.
~ Unknown
People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.
~ Michael Parenti
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.
~ Michael Parenti
You dont know your wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day.
~ Michael Parenti
You don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day
~ Michael Parenti
Everything a child experiences, either by way of indulgence or the self-restraint you impose, is preparing him for the day when he will mature into a responsible, moral soul. Somewhere on that road of development, each child will graduate to commence his full accountability. That child then stands alone before God, "without excuse." It becomes his day of accountability.
~ Michael Pearl
Early in life, stalkers learned how to hate, but unlike common criminals, they learned self-restraint also. They held their hatred in check. Few of the dangerous ones, the ones with the mind-set of an assassin, got in trouble with the police.
~ Unknown
a cat was observed in a veterinarian's waiting area sitting patiently on a leash, held by a human. Whoever you are, you had better cut it out.
~ Unknown
Peace is found neither in hot blood nor in cold sweat," Nova said.
~ Michael Reaves
Karate has helped me to control my temper, but my tongue still needs a handbrake or a dead man's switch.
~ Michael Robotham
Second, and in the same breath, constitutions seek to discipline politics and to limit government power.
~ Unknown
Our best trading days are when we don't trade.
~ Unknown