Inner Restraint Quotes

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

I cannot be more aggressive than my nature makes me,.

I'm not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

There's no one to stop you but yourself.

Without discipline, Religion would be impossible

I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like

You shall be held down by the chains of your own judgment.

We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are.

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.