self-restraint
self-constraint

He praised security forces' discipline and self restraint in dealing with the latest riots and the protest movement that began about two years ago.

Green: impulsive, violent, no self restraint or self control.

People with self restraint are very hard to come by.

Now, though, recognizing that the country's security and economy depend in large measure on the American ties, he is asking protesters to use "self restraint."

Bevan, a coal miner's son, had gone too far in a land that took pride in self restraint and never lived down the remark.

A thread of self restraint impeded him, a protective instinct that placed a glass ceiling on his development.

To his credit, he'd exercised self restraint in the captain's case, and, looking back, he was glad he had.

Cicero praises him for this act of self restraint.

"It shows a lack of self restraint," says my father, who has serious rules about eating and drinking.

But perhaps it no surprise that in a town named for self restraint, collective grief is an emotion far easier to feel than to see or hear.