Self Restraint Quotes
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Self-government requires qualities of self-denial and restraint.
— John F. Kennedy
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
And if there are any two moral stances that our times call for, they are precisely these, self-restraint and compassion.
— Daniel Goleman
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
Asceticism, also called ascesis, is the practice of rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint and is performed as a spiritual discipline. Like
— Randi Fredricks, Ph.D.
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
Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.
— Simon Sinek
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
Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.
— Ambrose Bierce
There is a difference between what you want, and what you need.
— Abhijit Naskar
Do you usually show so little self restraint, special agent? Or do you ask all the girls to marry you?
— Tate Hallaway
Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
— Zeno Of Citium
I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
— Mary MacLane
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.
— Marya Mannes
Self-regulation is not simply a moral characteristic. It is biologically healthy for both your mind and the body.
— Abhijit Naskar
Great men have great discipline.
— Habeeb Akande
All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.
— Paul Tournier
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 wise man, by vigor, mindfulness, restraint, and self-control, creates for himself an island which no flood can submerge.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.
— Leo Tolstoy
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.
— Shannon Fife
In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.
— Edith Hamilton
Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
— James Russell Lowell
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.
— Gautama Buddha
Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.
— Nouman Ali Khan
But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.
— Chinmayananda Saraswati
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
Religions - most of them, anyway - had promoted self-effacement, sacrifice, restraint.
— Nancy Kress
But at the heart of character is the ability to restrain our desires. As a man grows in character, he builds the muscles of self-restraint.
— Richard E. Simmons III
The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.
— Charles Eisenstein
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
By our day, self-restraint was considered madness.
— Mark Sayers