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  • Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

    Party   Self   Broken  
    "Darkness in Washington" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2013.
  • Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

    Self   Ruins   Firsts  
    Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.36, North Atlantic Books
  • A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

    Men   Self   Pieces  
    Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
  • Self-restraint is feeling your oats without sowing them.

    Oats   Self   Feelings  
  • Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

    Self   Ego   Evolution  
    "Stories and Biographies from Iqbal".
  • The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

    Fighting   Self   Liberty  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”
  • The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.

    Self   Law   Democracy  
    Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied liberty: the myth of "a rich man's war"”
  • Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking.

    Self   Ethics   Vow  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”
  • Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

  • As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication. He then wants to say everything, which is the wrong tendency of young geniuses or the right prejudice of old bunglers. Thus, he fails to recognize the value and dignity of self-restraint, which is indeed for both the artist and the man the first and the last, the most necessary and the highest goal.

  • Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

    Robert Burns (2009). “Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.358, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

    Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Œnone”
  • Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of.

    Character   Men   Self  
    Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.188, Wordsworth Editions
  • Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

  • Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

    Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Insight and Responsibility”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

  • A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

    Wise   Wisdom   Freedom  
    Louisa May Alcott, “My Kingdom”
  • Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

    Self   India   Denial  
  • If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.

    Attitude   Pride   Ideas  
    Bruce McCall (1999). “Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada”, Vintage
  • Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

    Golf   Men   Self  
    Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).
  • Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

    Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”
  • No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.

    'Bishop Blougram's Apology' (1855) l. 693
  • The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

    Self   Lust   Desire  
  • It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

    Taken   Character   Self  
  • For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

    Fighting   Men   Self  
    Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.239
  • Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

    Loyalty   Self   Needs  
  • The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.

    Address at the University of Washington's 100th Anniversary Program, November 16, 1961.
  • It takes tremendous self-restraint on the part of the student not to want to monopolize the teacher's attention, to live a very controlled life and a happy life, and of course, be dedicated to the cause.

  • All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

    Men   Self   Discipline  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”
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