Quotes About Restraint

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world.

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

The more you say, the less people remember.

When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.