David A. Bednar Quotes

I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.

I wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

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

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

I have to reign myself in a lot.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

I need to rein myself in sometimes.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

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

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

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

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire.

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

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

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.

Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.