Calm Quote by Gautama Buddha

Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him…

— Saint Augustine

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

— Jeremy Taylor

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

— Robert A. Burton

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

— William Shakespeare

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

— Mark Twain

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

— C. A. Bartol

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in…

— Benjamin Franklin

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

— Edmund Burke

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

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

— Laozi

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy…

— Joseph Addison

Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and…

— Joanne Harris