Quotes about Restraint
Patience is the ability to wait and calmly preserve. We all grow impatient, but some people have more trouble waiting than others do. We tend to forget that all good things take time.
- John Wooden
It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.
- JRR Tolkien
There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
- Margaret Atwood
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- St. Jerome
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
- Euripides
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
- DH Lawrence
Man is not free unless government is limited.
- Ronald Reagan
We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.
- Epictetus
Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
- Robert Frost
Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.
- Erwin McManus
When the answer to all my dreams is as close as a touch away, why am I here holding back what I'm trying to say?
- Clay Aiken
A disciplined person not only knows how to say 'no' to themselves but 'no' to other people when they need to.
- Joyce Meyer