Quotes About Restraint

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

We may assume a false sense of liberty and feel an initial resistance to putting reins on a life that we believe to be free. Yet this false sense of freedom almost always moves us further away from our true self and from real happiness.

And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to...

Beware [of] the fury of a patient man.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Not saying everything you think isn't about choosing to allow your body language to do the talking instead of speaking your thoughts aloud. It's about refraining from both! Keeping quiet and still.

Proverbs 21:23: "Watch your words and hold your tongue; you'll save yourself a lot of grief" (MSG).

His foot was heavy on the gas pedal by nature, and when he didn't actively control himself, his default speed was usually twenty miles per hour over the posted limit. Despite conscious efforts to contain this impulse, he was beginning to feel he was beyond hope and desperately in need of a twelve-step speedaholics program.

Well, you know what they say: everything seems to take longer when you're crammed inside a footlocker.

And what happened when an individual cell became selfish and exhibited Nietzsche's will to power? It became a cancer. The cell would break free of the restraints on its own division and become immortal—for a while—until its very immortality choked the entire organism to death, killing the selfish cell in the process.

To?i avem pove?ti pe care nu vrem s? le spunem.

The word translated sober here is nepho, and it means to "be self-possessed under all circumstances.

Dont be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong.

She spilled whiskey on her shirt, she gon have to get it cleaned. She been going way to hard, someone has to intervene.

Its been a moment since Ive done some public speaking. I find now-a-days its best to keep quiet.

Too much emotion is like none at all.

People who know how to keep their mouths shut are rare.

An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Reaction" is convenient verbal shorthand for "I desire to behave in a particular way."—I may not act, you understand. But the impulse is with me. If, magically, all my restraints and inhibitions were to vanish, I'd embrace the woman, soothe the dog, throw out the cereal, weep or laugh or throw a temper tantrum.

Im share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.