Quotes About Temperance

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

I'm a really extreme person, and balance is probably the hardest thing for me to maintain.

The most important thing is to just stay constant and not get too high or too low.

The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

PROVERBS 15:1 | A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare.

You don't know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you'll ever learn.

What is required of us is restraint and humility.

Patience is a virtue not a vice.

The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style.

Success is all about patience.

You will need to know when to be assertive and wise enough to know when to exercise patience

Remember this well from now on: 'I want' and 'I don't want' aren't reasons, they can only be defined as self-indulgence.

Remember this well from now on: 'I want' and 'I don't want' aren't reasons, they can only be defined as self-indulgence.

It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.

By Your grace I desire to do Your will in everything, every moment of every day." Say: "Lord God, not a word upon my tongue but for Your glory. Not a movement of my temper but for Your glory. Not an affection of love or hate in my heart but for Your glory, and according to Your blessed will.

What is not generally remembered is that Prohibition was an explicitly religious exercise, being the joint product of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the pious lobbying of certain Protestant missionary societies.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

ADRY  (ADRY')   adv.[from a and dry.]Athirst; thirsty; in want of drink. He never told any of them, that he was his humble servant, but his well-wisher; and would rather be thought a malecontent, than drink the king's health when he was not adry.Spect.

And show me the man who is ill-tempered and yet is good enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy all around him!

The law, in all vicissitudes of government, fluctuations of the passions, or flights of enthusiasm, will preserve a steady undeviating course; it will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations, and wanton tempers of men. . . . On the one hand it is inexorable to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other it is deaf, deaf as an adder to the clamors of the populace.

Something can (has) been said for sobriety but very little.

Beware the Wrath of a Patient Adversary.

For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.