Quotes about Restraint
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The superior man limits his achievements.
— Confucius
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
— Euripides
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
— Publilius Syrus
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
— Marcus Aurelius
We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.
— Joyce Meyer
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
— Charles Dickens
Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.
— Hippocrates
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
— Abraham Lincoln