Quotes about Restraint

We probably will never be free from all our hostilities, and there even may be days and weeks in which our hostile feelings dominate our emotional life to such a degree that the best thing we can do is to keep distance, speak little to others and not write letters, except to ourselves.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

Any known attempt at proselyting would be instantly amenable at a criminal tribunal and would probably be punished by the death of the proselyte and the banishment of the missionary. All efforts must be conducted in private and are therefore very limited.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing, it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint.

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.