Quotes about Restraint
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
— Barbara Johnson
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
— Cicero
Patience means self-suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Great is the advantage of patience.
— John Tillotson
Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down
— Rick Warren
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.
— Melody Beattie
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.
— Joel Osteen
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
— Cicero
What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.
— Catherine Booth