Quotes about Restraint

The desire is overwhelming. Why? Because there is availability without accountability.

Selfcontrol is the skill of saying "no" to sinful desires, even when it hurts.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

When economic power desires to be left alone it uses the philosophy of laissez faire to discourage political restraint upon economic freedom. When it wants to make use of the police power of the state to subdue rebellions and discontent in the ranks of its helots, it justifies the use of political coercion and the resulting suppression of liberties by insisting that peace is more precious than freedom and that its only desire is social peace.

If you must needs have your pleasures, you should not have put yourselves into that calling that requireth you to make God and His service your pleasure, and restraineth you so much from fleshly pleasures.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Liberty, in so far as it is of any value, always means self-control in both the senses of that term: in the sense that we are only controlled by ourselves, and also in the sense that by ourselves we are controlled, and that every part of our nature is subservient to the purpose to which our whole nature is given.