Quotes about Restraint
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
— Marcus Aurelius
We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.
— Joyce Meyer
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
— Charles Dickens
Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.
— Hippocrates
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
— Abraham Lincoln
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
— Barbara Johnson
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?
— Cicero
Patience means self-suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Great is the advantage of patience.
— John Tillotson