Temperance Quotes · Page 6

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had…

— Rajneesh

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,…

— George Mason

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone…

— Samuel Smiles

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what…

— Meredith L. Young-Sowers

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a…

— Sam Manekshaw

The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but…

— James E. Faust

I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“But I have none: the king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have…

— William Shakespeare

The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed…

— Bertrand Russell

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life…

— Jeremy Collier

And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are…

— Felix Mendelssohn

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

— Benjamin Haydon

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let…

— Seneca the Younger

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

— John Bartholomew Gough

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

— Michel de Montaigne

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how…

— Claudius Claudianus

If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then…

— Dalai Lama

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

Some passions are bodily, other spiritual. Bodily passions have their sources in the body, while spiritual ones come from external things. But…

— Maximus the Confessor

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues:…

— Martin Seligman

We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk…

— Mark Twain

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

— Benjamin Franklin

“It is a queer thing. In a time of great need, when powerful leadership is demanded, the people—confused and excited—hear only the…

— Lloyd C. Douglas

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according,…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also…

— David O. McKay

By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which…

— John Evelyn

“In the 18th century, a new awareness of the problem emerged and people, especially women, "occasionally banded together to try to persuade,…

— Charles River Editors

All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for…

— Francois Rabelais

Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless…

— Andrew Jackson

All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance,…

— Aristotle

Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,…

— Sallust