Restraint Quotes

A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.

The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual.

Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint.

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.

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

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

The only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.

Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.