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“The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildflower? Because if I do, everybody in this democracy should be able to do the same. My act will be multiplied endlessly. To provide protection for wildlife and wild beauty, everyone has to deny himself proportionately. Special privilege and conservation are ever at odds.”

Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

“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.”

Men Way Want Life May Self Success Fighting Simple Impossible Achieve Crosses Difficulty Simplicity Engaged Self Control Gifted Restraint Equanimity Rendering Self Restraint

Book:Character. Repr

Source: Character. Repr

“Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.”

“Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.”

Knows World Self Wonder Steps Who We Are Midst Celebration Questioning Restraint Glimpse Meditating Self Restraint Attentiveness

Author:Martin Heidegger

“For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.”

Men Want Self Fighting Difficulty Engaged Restraint Willpower Equanimity Self Restraint

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Great coaches do not tell people what to think. They point people in the right direction to find the answers. This self-restraint is one of the most difficult challenges of leadership.”

People Thinking Self Difficult Challenges Answers Coaches Coaching Restraint Right Direction Self Restraint Great Coach Difficult Challenges

Author:Thomas G. Bandy

“When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element”

Giving Soul Self Passion Force Sides Elements Blind Impulse Heat Restraint Centre Self Restraint

Book:Sadhana: The Realization of Life

Source: Sadhana: The Realization of Life

“There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.”

Inspirational Self Limits Restraint Indulgence Self Restraint Self Indulgence

Book:Young India

Source: Young India

“It has taken me nearly 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; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.”

“There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.”

Self Desire Existence Depends Absence Lust Restraint Monk Thyself Adversaries Chastity Self Restraint

Author:Rumi

“The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.”

Self Challenges Teach Dad Instinct Restraint Reminding Self Restraint Being A Dad

Author:Michael Chiklis