Quotes about Restraint
Patience means self-suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Great is the advantage of patience.
— John Tillotson
Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down
— Rick Warren
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.
— Melody Beattie
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
— Benjamin Disraeli
If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.
— Joel Osteen
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
— Cicero
What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.
— Catherine Booth
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
— William Howard Taft
Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!
— David Brainerd
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
— Alphonsus Liguori