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Definition of Self-Restraint
Self-restraint

Restraint over one's self; self-control; self-command.

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Self-Restraint Quotations

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Lewis H. Lapham

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.
Mary MacLane

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
Muhammed Iqbal


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