Quotes about Restraint

You say that convention is all that really keeps you straight in this "woman proposition"; but it's more than that, Amory; it's the fear that what you begin you can't stop; you would run amuck, and I know whereof I speak; it's that half-miraculous sixth sense by which you detect evil, it's the half-realized fear of God in your heart.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

You can't just let nature run wild.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

In prayer, we bring to Jesus those anxieties and insecurities that would otherwise fuel our outrage. The discipline of prayer prevents us from venting, flaming, or savaging others, either in person or online. I've never seen people go after someone they're praying for.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are showed unto thee than men understand.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.