#restraint

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#country #forward #future #great #i

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

— Phyllis Schlafly

#congress #judiciary #need #our #restraint

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. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#love #relationships #restraint #rules #love

He wanted to take Homer Wells in his arms, and hug him, and kiss him, but he could only hope that Homer understood how much Dr. Larch's self-esteem was dependent on his self-control. ↗

— John Irving

#self-control #self-restraint #love

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family. ↗

— Martha Griffiths

#aid #alike #become #chance #fact

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. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#passivity #path #peace #quotes #restraint

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#displays #expression #first #individuality #natural

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #authority #based #between #choices

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint. ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

#birth #brain #control #dust #emotion

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#athletic #both #burdens #character #consists