self-restraint

NOUN
  1. exhibiting restraint imposed on the self
    an effective temperateness in debate
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  • And by "trivial", I mean, like, say, how many calories I ate that day (easy, because I never give into the "baser" urges, such as the urge to overindulge in food, given my yoga-dictated practice of "brahmacharya", loosely translated from Sanskrit as "self-restraint" and often associated with the restraint of sexual urges). Lauren Cahn: Namaste...Bitches
  • Compelling answers to this need for self-restraint, for delayed gratification, are in short supply.
  • Self-restraint is wisdom. Impulsiveness is foolishness. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • A good father is a source of inspiration and self-restraint. A good mother is the root of kindness and humbleness. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • If self-restraint at the feast isn't one of your virtues, a walk in the brisk air may help undo what you've overdone.
  • Schooled in self-restraint and ideals of nobility, she maintains a dispassionate tone, and her captors' treatment of her provides insights denied to most prisoners.
  • A good father is a source of inspiration and self-restraint. A good mother is the root of kindness and humbleness. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • The tattooed person should keep Buddhist precepts of self-restraint to ensure the power of the tattoos.
  • He found that a part of the brain that plays a role in self-restraint and evaluation - the inner critic - powered down when the musicians were improvising, while an area associated with self-expression ramped up. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • st. ixSome overcolour, some overpressure of the phrase remains here: so in st. xiii: —Keats has not yet reached the self-restraint and clearness of his latest work. Notes
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