Quotes About Temperance

Shut your damn mouth.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

I do have that personality where I like to have fun and enjoy life, so I have to make sure I tone myself down when I'm expressing myself.

Patience! It was the least of my virtues.

Sirs, up and be doing. Press toward the mark. Add to your faith, virtue; to virtue, knowledge; to knowledge, temperance; to temperance, patience; to patience, godliness, that you be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Be you therefore steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of our Lord. And if you do these things, you will never fall (1 Cor. 15:58; 2 Peter 1:5-8, 10).

Let every lust be mortified, every duty performed, every grace exercised.

L. Moody warned believers: Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may be in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.15

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Men are only too ready to be swayed by senseless passion.

Remember, life is what we make of it. Stay away from hog (the swine), the stinking tobacco weed, the hot fiery alcohol, wine, beer, drugs, foolishness, ignorance, madness, drunkenness, gambling, murdering, robbery, deceitfulness, lying, mockery and seeking to take advantage of your brother and your sister, and believe in the presence of God

I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.

There were times to rise to the bait, and times not to.

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.

As my English teacher used to tell me, if you can't think of the right thing to say, say nothing at all.

See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

algunos preferimos, supongo, los vicios que nos divierten a las virtudes que nos aburren.

When the urge arises in your mind To feelings of desire or angry hate, Do not act! Be silent, do not speak! And like a log of wood be sure to stay.

Try to find balance in everything.

Some of the things that I regret most in my life happened when I was drinking. I'm just not good with alcohol. And I don't give a damn what time of the day it is, I just drink too much.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

So in most things men are ready to abuse themselves in thinking the greatest means to be best, when it should be the fittest.