Restraint Quotes

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

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

Restraint never ruins one's health.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

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

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.

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

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

Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.

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

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

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

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

The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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

The only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.

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

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

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

Restraint is the better part of beauty.

I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.

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

'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.

Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.

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

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

Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.

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

Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding

Remember that even in war there is a time for restraint. A time to hold back your sword.

In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

Exercise humility and restraint.

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

I don't think I've ever heard anybody in this Regime counsel restraint and advise, "No backlash against cops. We must maintain the order."

Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.

restraint equals indulgence

Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready.

We all move uneasily within our restraints.

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