94 Quotes About Restraint

It is hard to remain iconoclastic when standing waist-deep in the shards of smashed icons.

It is the restraint of patience that yields the magnificent in life.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types.

Did someone actually have to do bad things to be a bad boy, or was it all about the potential? If it was the potential that counted, then maybe it was the restraint that was so sexy, knowing that he could do something dangerous and powerful but had the restraint not to.

Spirituality is mans atempt to shed ties with the various impulses promoting self destruction.

You have less restraint rather than more as you grow older. Think it over and alter yourself, or we shan't have happy lives.

I gather from what you have not said that he is an unmitigated scoundrel."R. smiled with his pale blue eyes."I don't know that I'd go quite so far as that. He hasn't had the value of a public-school education. His ideas of playing the game aren't quite the same as yours and mine. I don't know that I would leave a gold cigarette-case about when he was in the neighbourhood, but if he had lost money to you at poker and he had pinched your cigarette-case, he would immediately pawn it to pay you.

Your 'No' might be a far off option,but remember it still is an option..!