Restraint Quotes
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French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.
— Sarah Turnbull
Restraint never ruins one's health.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
— Henry Kissinger
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
— Charlotte Bronte
Half of love is restraint. Patience and respect. Don't waste your time on the unworthy.
— Aleksandr Voinov
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
— Woodrow Wilson
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
— George Mason
A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.
— Daniel McHugh
(The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)
— Anne Tyler
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
— Henry Kissinger
Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.
— Kate Chopin
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.
— Thiruvalluvar
People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.
— Edith Hamilton
An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.
— Vida Dutton Scudder
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
— Steven James
Doesn't civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?
— Hanif Kureishi
It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.
— Ryan Reynolds
Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?
— Friedrich Schiller
His restraint was driving Connelly insane. He wanted to see Azariah lose it and totally let go. Damn, he wanted to fuck the control right out of him.
— Elizabeth Varlet
For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary ...
— C.S. Lewis
Come, let's be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
— Gustave Flaubert
Do you usually show so little self restraint, special agent? Or do you ask all the girls to marry you?
— Tate Hallaway
both practicing restraint.
— Robert B. Parker
Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?
— Prince Philip
The fine art of restraint, timely practised, is too beautiful, to go against.
— Kamini Arichandran
I'm obviously younger, much better looking [then Jeorge W.Bush].He didn't veto things, he didn't bring order and fiscal restraint.
— Stephen Colbert
Restraint: not just for sex anymore. - T-SHIRT
— Darynda Jones
In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.
— Shannon Fife
Saying of the ProphetAnger
You ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger. — Idries Shah
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.
— Nouman Ali Khan
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
— Orson Scott Card
When you take the high road you will see things that some people can't.
— Shannon L. Alder
Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.
— Jim Rohn
To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.
— Pietro Belluschi
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
— Woodrow Wilson
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
— Seneca The Younger
Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.
— James Anthony Froude
Such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
— Fanny Burney
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
— James Russell Lowell
Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types.
— Iain M. Banks
The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.
— David C. Day
A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.
— David McCullough
Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.
— Richelle Mead
Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.
— Suzanne Collins
Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.
— Kristin Armstrong
Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.
— Billy Casper
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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.
— William Howard Taft
The most difficult kind of strength restraint. — Rick Riordan
The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.
— Leo Tolstoy
It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.
— Owen Feltham
Beating yourself up over every perceived mistake is the work of an internal abuser who must be restrained and reformed.
— Bryant McGill
Restraint is totally the wrong way to go when the man of your dreams is licking your pussy like it's made of spun sugar.
— Ainsley Booth
What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire?
— Guy De Maupassant
It took all my restraint not to fall to my knees in front of her and beg her to love me.
— Christine Zolendz
Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.
— Ilona Andrews
The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.
— Millard Fillmore
Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.
— David A. Bednar
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
— Jonathan Sacks
No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.
— Lord Chesterfield
When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you."~Cole
— Tina Carreiro
Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
— Mahatma Gandhi
He ate with all the restraint of a nymphomaniac at an orgy.
— Thaddeus White
But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
— Will Durant
The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.
— Winston S. Churchill
Passion ought to be tempered with restraint.
— Maya Rodale
Restraint: not just for sex anymore.
— Darynda Jones
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
— Osbert Lancaster
