Quotes About Restraint

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

Use your power gently.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.

Meekness is power under control.

The world we are is a secret prison and the secret prison is power.

Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

Just because you have power, doesn't mean you should use it, especially for the wrong reasons.

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

Restraining prayer we cease to fight Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you.