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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

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

The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed. — T.F. Hodge

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal

The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint. — Henry Kissinger

Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint. — Sara Genn

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

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene. — Cedric Hardwicke

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

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

But at the core of psychopathy is a lack of moral restraint. — Jon Ronson

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

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

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

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

both practicing restraint. — Robert B. Parker

Wealthy old woman + devious imagination - restraint = Aunt Agatha — Maya Rodale

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

Jude did not flip them off and then drove for a few blocks feeling good about himself, proud of his restraint. His will, it was like iron. — Joe Hill

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. — Kazuo Ishiguro

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 Prophet
Anger
You ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger. — Idries Shah

Purpose gives rise to discipline, restraint, and self-control, which are crucial, fundamental tools for success in the journey of life. — Pedro Okoro

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

Patience, attention, and restraint are the keys to good cooking. — Eddie Huang

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

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint. — Rodney King

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

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

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

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

Don't tell me you don't trust me, Lucinda. For the way I exercised such commendable restraint last night, I deserve a medal, not suspicion. — Lisa Kleypas

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters. — Kristin Armstrong

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. — Bob Filner

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

Sometimes the greatest difference between being a boy and being a man is restraint. — Dave Donovan

It took all my restraint not to fall to my knees in front of her and beg her to love me. — Christine Zolendz

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible. — Maimonides

Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon. — Ilona Andrews

The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It's up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out. — Michael Burry

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

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

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

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy. — Holly Lisle

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression. — James E. Faust

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. — John Ruskin