Temperance Quotes · Page 3

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

— Abraham Lincoln

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

— Anonymous

Temper your future actions.

— Tom DeLay

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

— Frances E. Willard

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

— William Penn

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

— Juvenal

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

— Joseph Addison

Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

— Robert A. Burton

“Of course I contradict myself. Why else would hold things in and put the fire out?”

— Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso

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

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

Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

— DH Lawrence

These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

— Gregory of Nazianzus

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is…

— Socrates

One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

— Samuel Smiles

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

Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress,…

— John Milton

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

— Hosea Ballou

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

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

— Iris Murdoch

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and…

— Arthur Helps

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

I'm sorry for losing my temper following the race, but after a day or two of looking back at the race it's…

— Robby Gordon

“Thus Epicurus also, when he designs to destroy the natural fellowship of mankind, at the same time makes use of that which…

— Epictetus

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

— Andrew Jackson

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on…

— J. Reuben Clark

This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and…

— John Milton

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

In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective…

— Juan Gines de Sepulveda

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

— Samuel Johnson

Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

— Sathya Sai Baba

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

— Margaret Cavendish

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

— Joseph Addison

Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

— Horace Mann

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

— Epicurus

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

— Anonymous