restraint

When you take the high road you will see things that some people can't.

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783)

Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.

Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

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.

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

The sexual tension between them was becoming a tangible thing that was growing everyday to the point that it could explode and probably take out a city with the blast.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed.

Karate training will make you strong and confident, but restraint will make you respected

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.

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.

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

I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.