Quotes About Temperance

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

I don't go to clubs.

Always maintain your composure.

I'm not really a swagger guy.

I would always rather do something in moderation than simply swing from one extreme to another.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. —George Eliot

Aristotle urged people to seek "the golden mean" between extremes, "moderation in all things" (which we interpret as including moderation in the pursuit of moderation). But why should this golden mean in general be desirable? Clyde Coombs and George Avrunin (1977) have enunciated a very simple principle that implies moderation: "Good things satiate and bad things escalate.

Moderation was the effect of congenital optimism. Why push too hard at an open door?

Sailors will never be convinced that rum is a dangerous thing, by taking it away from them, and giving it to the officers; nor that, that temperance is their friend, which takes from them what they have always had, and gives them nothing in the place of it.

By nature you instinctively seek out the middle road, midway between dangerous passion and soul-destroying indifference.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

The most difficult kind of strength -- restraint.

Percy muttered. 'I want to drown her.' 'Be patient, water boy.' 'Don't call me water boy.

Chocolate must be savored, not rushed.

POINT TO PONDER: Blessed are the balanced.

although boldness of action is always called for, it must be tempered by wisdom and restraint, and too often it is not.

The Well or the Cup How can you tell at the start what you can give away and what you must hold to your heart. What is the well and what is a cup. Some people get drunk up.

Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts.

Let those to whom God gives the gift of abstinence know that they shall receive their proper reward

You never win a vote by proving the constituent a fool. Be charming, be modest, and don't lose your temper.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

The greatest power available to man is not to use it.

Meekness is power under control.