Quotes of Restraint - somelinesforyou

“ Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ”

- George Orwell

“ Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible only to himself. ”

- Henry Brooks Adams

“ It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. ”

- David Lloyd George

“ Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice; these are the things that form the education of the world. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. ”

- Henry Miller

“ An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ Once you're signed to a label you compromise. ”

- Talib Kweli

“ Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. ”

- Jean Paul

“ A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. ”

- Will Rogers

“ I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself. ”

- Pietro Aretino

“ Whoever controls the media — the images — controls the culture. ”

- Allen Ginsberg

“ There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism. ”

- Henry George

“ Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. ”

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“ Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Everything in moderation — including moderation. ”

- Harvey Steiman

“ Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. ”

- Joseph Hall

“ We're about moderation. ”

- Jenny Craig

“ The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ There's no evidence not to drink in moderation, but we are not ready to be advocating this either. ”

- Robert Adams

“ I think moderation is the key. In small amounts, it has not proved to be harmful. One or two cups a day doesn't seem to cause problems for most people. ”

- Jennifer James

“ We're not asking anybody here to stop what you're doing. We're asking you to do what you're doing in moderation. There's a scripture that says let your moderation be known unto all men. ”

- James Jones

“ There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. ”

- Napoleon Hill
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