Chinua Achebe Quotes

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

During crazy times, I just hold back. People are so quick to jump on something or rip it apart.

I didn't stay patient enough at times, maybe.

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

It's a wise thing to hold back.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

I need to rein myself in sometimes.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.