Restraint Quotes

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.

Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.

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

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

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

The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

The only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.