Quotes About Temperance

I won't say anything that I will regret tomorrow

He who rules his spirit, shall conquer himself.

Do not be hot tempered.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Angry people are not always wise.

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

the fundamental maxim of Artistotle, that true virtue is placed at an equal distance between the opposite vices.

Nothing can have so prevalent a power to still the agitation of passion in the breast, nothing is so fit to induce a smooth and easy flow, and a constant evenness of temper, as a frequent application to the throne of grace.

This theory, then, is in the first place based on an erroneous assumption--viz., that abstinence from things lawful is intrinsically a higher sort of virtue than temperance in the use of them. This is not true. Abstinence is the virtue of the weak, temperance is the virtue of the strong.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Considerate men, of every description, ought to prize whatever will tend to beget or fortify that temper in the courts: as no man can be sure that he may not be to-morrow the victim of a spirit of injustice, by which he may be a gainer to-day. And every man must now feel, that the inevitable tendency of such a spirit is to sap the foundations of public and private confidence, and to introduce in its stead universal distrust and distress.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of Sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. But Health consists with Temperance alone, And Peace, oh Virtue! Peace is all thy own.

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city" (Prov. 16:32).

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Galatians 6:1 ESV

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city. Proverbs 16:32

I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke and if I go out to a movie I like to watch things that are moral.

I've had many managers, and learned a lot from them, the good ones always stayed even-keeled, never rode the waves.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

I accept that I sometimes overstepped the mark, but I can tell you that, off the pitch, I've never been an overly aggressive person.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.