Temperance Quotes

141 Temperance quotes by 105 unique authors

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. — Samuel Smiles
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes. — Billy Sunday
The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in… — Billy Sunday
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. — Pope John Paul II
Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold… — Iris Murdoch
[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 a chart with… — Gretchen Rubin
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. — Philip Sidney
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. — Samuel Johnson
I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is… — Rajneesh
Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single. — Rajneesh
This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers,… — John Milton
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted… — Patrick Henry
When it comes to satisfying our spiritual appetites, there is no such thing as excess. There are no restraints placed on us by God. There… — Sam Storms
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. — John Burns
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical… — William Lyon Mackenzie King
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and… — Patrick Henry
She belongs to a Temperance Society and wears one of those badges in the shape of a bow of ribbon to show that she would… — Elizabeth Taylor
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions — St Thomas Aquinas

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