Self Restraint Quotes
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.
Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
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.
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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.
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.
Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.
Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.
One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior.
Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.
Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I hold things in and put the fire out?
In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption.
There is a difference between what you want, and what you need.
The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.