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"In the body restraint is good; good is restraint in speech; in thought restraint is good: good is restraint in all things." »The Dhammapada
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"In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly." »Goethe
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"of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most." »Thucyclides
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"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up." »Martin Niemller
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"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs." »Author Unknown
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"By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm." »The Dhammapada
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"An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single." »Jimmy Townsend
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"Law does not put the least restraint Upon our freedom, but maintain?st; Or, if it does, ?tis for our good, To give us freer latitude: For wholesome laws preserve us free, By stinting of our liberty." »Butler
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"It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public." »George Bernard Shaw
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"In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry." »Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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"No nation was ever ruined by trade." »Benjamin Franklin
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"When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"i will never trade gold for silver again." »esther clerici
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"In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions." »Edmund Burke
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"He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation." »Bette Davis
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"With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed." »Clarence Darrow
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"trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden." »Thomas Sowell, Editorial on Wal-Mart, 10-Dec-2003
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"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism." »Robert Hutchins
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"The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power." »Dennis Kucinich
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"Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade." »George Eliot
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"For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control." »Smiles
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"Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade." »Miranda Richardson
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"We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World trade Center and the Pentagon" »Orrin Hatch
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"This is obviously an act of war that has been committed on the United States. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World trade Center and the Pentagon" »John McCain
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