Quotes about Restraint

People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

To not say the unkind or critical thing, particularly when provoked and/or fatigued, is a supreme kind of self-mastery.

The ability to listen first requires restraint, respect, and reverence. And the ability to make yourself understood requires courage and consideration. On the continuum, you go from fight and flight instincts to mature two-way communication where courage is balanced with consideration.

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

His life was one of simplicity and deprivation.

The wise woman thinks twice and speaks once or, better yet, does not speak at all.

Under the Constitution, our government follows the model set out by Thomas Jefferson: "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now.

John Calvin wrote, "The evil in our desire typically does not lie in what we want, but in that we want it too much.