Best 77 quotes in «restraint quotes» category

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to it knowingly, it was as cold as it was hot, as rational as it was lethal. To embrace the Rage was to embrace a splendor, a glory, a denial of all restraint but not of reason. It was pure, elemental purpose, unencumbered by compassion or horror or pity, yet it was far more than mere frenzy.

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

Mischel’s next step made his studies iconic — he tracked the kids forward, seeing if marshmallow wait time predicted anything about their adulthoods . [...] Five-year-old champs at marshmallow patience averaged higher SAT scores in high school (compared with those who couldn’t wait). [...] Forty years post-marshmallow, they excelled at frontal function, had more PFC [Prefrontal cortex] activation during a frontal task, and had lower BMIs. A gazillion-dollar brain scanner doesn’t hold more predictive power than one marshmallow.

Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one.

Restrain from someone because they are a bad influence and not because they are different from you.

Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.

Restraint is the whole purpose of want and desire; just as the resistance of the filament makes a light bulb glow, your restraint gives you character.

Saying of the Prophet Anger You ask for a piece of advice. I tell you: 'Do not get angry.' He is strong who can withhold anger.

Sometimes the greatest difference between being a boy and being a man is restraint.

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

The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instincts of play and adventure, are most urgent. Naturally, he looks eagerly forward to the time of escape, which he fondly imagines will be when his boyhood is over and he is free of masters.

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

The church is often called a killjoy for protesting against sexual license. But the real killing of joy comes with the grabbing of pleasure. As with credit card usage. the price tag is hidden at the start, but the physical and emotional debt incurred will take a long time to pay off.

There are so many ways of classifying our tendencies, but I think one of the most telling must be this: there are those of us who do not wrestle very often or for very long with our appetites, who can simply say, Enough, and walk away, and those of us who are constantly at odds with how much we desire and what we actually allow ourselves. The gay between desire and restraint: here rages the river of discontent, one that often threatens to overflow its banks.

The fine art of restraint, timely practised, is too beautiful, to go against.

The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.

The insistence in Darcy's voice is a symptom of his passion for Elizabeth; it emerges even in their most mundane interactions. We can trace the development of Darcy's feelings for Elizabeth in the tone of his voice. This reaches its climax in the scene in which he proposes to her. His negative persistence, beginning his speech with 'In vain have I struggled. It will not do,' becomes almost violent, in part because the novel itself is so restrained and Darcy is the most restrained of all the characters. Now, please listen carefully to that 'you.' Darcy seldom if ever addresses Elizabeth by her name, but he has a special way of saying 'you' when he addresses her a few times that makes the impersonal pronoun a term of ultimate intimacy. One should appreciate such nuances in a culture such as ours, where everyone is encouraged to demonstrate in the most exaggerated manner his love for the Imam and yet forbidden from any public articulation of private feelings, especially love.

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

The practice of that which is ethically best—what we call goodness or virtue—involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless self-assertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows... It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence... Laws and moral precepts are directed to the end of curbing the cosmic process.

The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.

Well done, Spin," Cobb said over a private line. "You have the passion. Now you're showing restraint.

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

What is saiyam parinaam? It is when the Self (Atma) does not become one in with the non-Self (pudgal); It continues to prevail separately. If the Self is allowed to become one [with the non-Self], then that becomes a violent intent (himsak bhaav).

When one overlooks Seeing 'what is happening,' it is called asaiyam (a state of lack of control over anger-pride-deceit-greed and attachment-abhorrence). To incessantly See 'what is happening' is the ultimate saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence). The state of these Gnanis (those who are Self-realized) is considered as saiyam.

When worldly people come into a set discipine (niyam), they are known as yamdhari (one who upholds self restraint). From the moment one holds onto any set discipline, he is considered to have come into self restraint (yam). The tyaagis (ones who have renounced worldly life) are considered to be niyami (one who follows a set discipline) whereas the Gnanis are considered saiyami (One who has no anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence).

Where saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) does not leave a clear impression, there the vitaraag dharma (the religion prescribed by the absolutely realized Self, which is at 360 degrees, is impartial, incorporates all viewpoints, does not hurt anyone else's viewpoint or religion) will not work. Even if soil were to be thrown into your lentil soup, yet you do not lose saiyam, that is referred to as vitaraag dharma. If displeasure is shown on your face, yet closure and inner satisfaction prevails within, then there is no problem. That [displeasure on the face] is considered as a defect of the non-Self complex (pudgal). When such defects of the non-Self complex no longer remain, that is an altogether different matter!

Who are considered as those who live a worldly life (sansaari)? Those who have attachment-abhorrence and anger-pride-deceit-greed (kashays), are all sansaari. Those who do not have a resultant state of control over anger-pride-deceit-greed (saiyam parinaam), are all sansaari. If one is living with queens, but if he has control over anger-pride-deceit-greed (saiyam), then he is considered saiyami whereas the one who renounces worldly life but has no saiyam then even he is considered sansaari.

With the support of the knowledge of Vyavasthit (result of Scientific Circumstantial Evidence) and the awakened awareness (jagruti) of One's own Real form (Swaroop), One can observe saiyam (a state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence) completely.

We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.

Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Exercise humility and restraint.

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

In caring for others and serving heaven, There is nothing like using restraint.

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

I'm obviously younger, much better looking [then Jeorge W.Bush].He didn't veto things, he didn't bring order and fiscal restraint.

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.