Top 226 Restrain Quotes & Sayings

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.

First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.

Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.

I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives.

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further. The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold.

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

A President of the United States cannot restrain anything from publication.

Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

Unruly beings are as unlimited as space They cannot possibly all be overcome, But if I overcome thoughts of anger alone This will be equivalent to vanquishing all foes. Where would I possibly find enough leather With which to cover the surface of the earth? But (wearing) leather just on the soles of my shoes Is equivalent to covering the earth with it. Likewise it is not possible for me To restrain the external course of things; But should I restrain this mind of mine What would be the need to restrain all else?

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

Restrain yourself... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain.

I'd like to restrain from cruelity and not be thanked." ~ Katsa

Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.

He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue.

Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.