Temperance Quotes · Page 4

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

— William Shakespeare

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

— Rumi

“The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virtues of loyalty, temperance, and…

— Joseph Campbell

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is,…

— Tim Allen

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

— Samuel Johnson

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in…

— Marcus Aurelius

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am…

— Michel de Montaigne

[Benjamin Franklin]identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate--temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity and humility--and made…

— Gretchen Rubin

Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy…

— Walter Raleigh

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of…

— Samuel Adams

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction;…

— Hosea Ballou

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous…

— Robert E. Lee

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it…

— Jeff Gordon

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and…

— Benjamin Franklin

I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.

— Benjamin Franklin

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

— Epicurus

Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.

— Miguel de Cervantes

A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who…

— John Climacus

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

— Joseph Addison

Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities…

— Iris Murdoch

Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as…

— Fulton J. Sheen