Top 465 Restraint Quotes & Sayings

When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.

As a teenager, you don't really have restraint.

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.

Restraint is the better part of beauty.

Exercise humility and restraint.

I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

Reckless action is worse than wise restraint.

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware-like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we will compensate by urging restraint. By that same token, someone who bore a glacier within them might urge passionate abandon. The danger is, as Bergman points out, that a glacial personality in need of passionate abandon may read Stravinsky and apply restraint instead.

Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding

Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so.

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional values and Founding Fathers' principles, had been impugned as racist, violent, homophobic, and all their motivations have been impugned.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm so unrestrainedly that he prevents himself and others from hearing. That lack of restraint is particularly noticeable in the descriptions of nature with which you interrupt dialogues; when one reads them, these descriptions, one wishes they were more compact, shorter, say two or three lines.

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

Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the pursuit of profit, and forever renewed profit, by means of continuous, rational, capitalistic enterprise.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

I would need to display great restraint, but we've got to have toughness.

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

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses. We haven't resorted to total war every time we have a conflict around the world, because that restraint is what defines us. That restraint is what gives us the moral standing to lead the world.

French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

We don't call war hell because it is fought without restraint. It is more nearly right to say that, when certain restraints are passed, the hellishness of war drives us to break with every remaining restraint in order to win. Here is the ultimate tyranny: those who resist aggression are forced to imitate, and perhaps even to exceed, the brutality of the aggressor.

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

restraint equals indulgence

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.