Quotes About Temperance

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

I'm not a show-off by nature.

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint.

Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.

Patience is the key of content.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

Practice humility and patience.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

It's true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . .

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.