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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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