Quotes about Restraint

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.

Human sympathy has its limits.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

It'd be a good setting to jump overboard,' said Dick mildly. 'Wouldn't it?' agreed Nicole hastily. 'Let's borrow life-preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

You say that convention is all that really keeps you straight in this "woman proposition"; but it's more than that, Amory; it's the fear that what you begin you can't stop; you would run amuck, and I know whereof I speak; it's that half-miraculous sixth sense by which you detect evil, it's the half-realized fear of God in your heart.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

You can't just let nature run wild.

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.