Restraint Quotes

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

Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.

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

Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win.

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

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

Restraint is the better part of beauty.

A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.

Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.

No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.

French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.

Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

restraint equals indulgence

[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.

Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

I would need to display great restraint, but we've got to have toughness.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding

I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.

Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief To banish the less, I find my chief relief.