Quotes About Temperance

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

Do I ever really lose my temper? Goodness me, no. Not at home or at work. There's no point in getting in a tizz over anything. Life's too short.

If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

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 their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

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

Galatians 5:23 Gentleness, self-control.

I can't ever let the actions of other people cause me to sin.

Proverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.

Nothing to extremes, everything in moderation.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid a hundred days of sorrow.

Anyone can become angry—that's easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not easy," taught Aristotle.

self-control is more indispensable than gunpowder.

Anyone can become angry — that's easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not easy

Restriction promotes addiction.