Self Restraint Quotes - Page 2

• Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Hard Work, Self, Evil

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• We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

  William Howard Taft

  Exercise, Government, Self

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• Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

  Wendell Berry

  Self, Restraint, Killjoy

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• Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

  Holly Lisle

  Ignorance, Self, Law

  Holly Lisle (2001). “The Secret Texts”, p.194, Hachette UK

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• It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Taken, Character, Self

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• Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Food

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Sep 26, 2013

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• There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Sight, Self

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• Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.

  Thomas G. Bandy

  Thinking, Self, People

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• The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildflower? Because if I do, everybody in this democracy should be able to do the same. My act will be multiplied endlessly. To provide protection for wildlife and wild beauty, everyone has to deny himself proportionately. Special privilege and conservation are ever at odds.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Home, Fighting, Odds

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• “Do you deny it?” Grimani persisted. “That you went to Marchese Rinaldo's room to ask him about your notebook?” “Deny it? Only the greatest selfrestraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.”

  Kate Ross

  Self, Laughing, Deny

  "The Devil in Music: Julian Kestrel #4".

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• At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force
  is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must
  always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it
  should be for a principle not out of passion.

  Abdullah Yusuf Ali

  Passion, Eye, Fighting

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• The man who wears the yellow-dyed robe but is not free from stains himself, without self-restraint and integrity, is unworthy of the robe.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Integrity, Men

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• In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Self, Revolution, Ethics

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• Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.

  Shannon Fife

  Oats, Self, Feelings

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• Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Ethics, Vow

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

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• Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, India, Denial

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• All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Self, Discipline

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is never to cooperate, but rather to follow one's own interest as far as possible. Checks and balances are all applied externally, by opposition, never by self-restraint. Labor, management, the military, the government, etc., never forbear until their excesses arouse enough opposition to force them to do so.

  Wendell Berry

  Military, Government, Self

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• Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

  Erik Erikson

  Determination, Exercise, Self

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Insight and Responsibility”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught resistance to pragmatic temptation. He was definitely a man of sentiment, who refused to put matters on a basis of materialism and self-aggrandizement.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Self, Temptation

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

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• Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Self, Spirit

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• Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Birth Control, Method

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Self Restraint V. Self-indulgence”

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• Our system is not only based on rules, but a series of self-restraints that we won't be as barbaric as we could be in competing for power because we know if we're all barbaric as we could be, the whole country and the whole society falls apart.

  David Brooks

  Country, Fall, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.

  Bruce McCall

  Attitude, Pride, Ideas

  Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage

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• If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through. So it's self-given, but that's the only way, I think, to make a strong, good new creation.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Strong, Pain, Struggle

  Source: www.elle.com

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