Quotes About Temperance

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.

I don't ever throw clubs intentionally.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

I'd been in my share of fights but never thrown the first punch, and I'm not quick to anger.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

When anger is flooding through your chest best to quiet your reckless barking tongue

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.