Top 1200 Self Restraint Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Clear communication between selves - the surface self and the deep self - is the enemy of self-doubt. It slays confusion.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.

A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.

The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery and self-control more than anything else.

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

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

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

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

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

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.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless selfassertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect , but shall help his fellows. It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence. Laws and moral precepts are directed to the end of curbing the cosmic process.

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

When you are free of your self in your heart, your labouring within your self is therapeutic to your self. It is a constant blend into your self of what your own Being is. The movement of love, enjoying being at work in the self. The movement of love, enjoying making a change in your self. The enjoyment of application.

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

In caring for others and serving heaven, There is nothing like using restraint.

If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.

Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.

The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

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

Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.

People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.