Quotes about restraint

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

— Edmund Burke

There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

— Sir John Lubbock

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

— John Ruskin

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

— Seneca