Clear Quote by Aristotle

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

— Aristotle

“For both excessive and deficient exercise ruin bodily strength, and, similarly, too much or too little eating or drinking ruins health, whereas the proportionate…

— Aristotle

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in…

— Laurence Sterne

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

— Frances E. Willard

Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be…

— Marcel Proust

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

— Blaise Pascal

Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

— C. A. Bartol

“Strength is the first virtue,” Alera said. “That is not a pleasant fact. Its distastefulness does not alter the truth that without strength to…

— Jim Butcher

Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing,…

— John Ruskin

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in…

— Joseph Butler

“The quality of any action of body, speech, and mind is primarily determined by the motivation. Thus any action done with positive motivation brings…

— Dalai Lama XIV