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What is self-restraint?

What is self-restraint? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Self-control, control over one's emotions, passions and actions.
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We believe that the most effective enforcement tool is self-policing and self-restraint.
Judges, as a matter of judicial self-restraint, cannot explain their decisions in public.
I didn't spend my entire time in Vegas sitting amongst gamblers and preaching the puritanical virtue of self-restraint.
He had a keen awareness of the ebb and flow of history, and of the need for consistent jurisprudence, and, above all, self-restraint.
Compelling answers to this need for self-restraint, for delayed gratification, are in short supply.
The tattooed person should keep Buddhist precepts of self-restraint to ensure the power of the tattoos.

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