Quotes About Temperance

Anything that cools my love for Christ is the world.

Love can wait to give. Lust can't wait to get.

Virtue requires denying one's baser instincts—i.e., human nature—and doing what is right.

The doctrine of the mean (the epithet 'golden' is un-Aristotelian) regularly occurs in later writers as a piece of moral advice -- a recipe or rule reminding us to 'observe the mean', to be moderate in all things and to avoid excess and deciciency. (If the doctrine urges us not to drink too much wine, it equally urges us not to drink too little -- but that is something which the moralizers usually find it prudent to ignore.)

There is no such thing as excess in our taking of this spiritual food. There is no such virtue as temperance in spiritual feasting.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Virtues become vices when they are carried to an extreme.

All philosophy in two words, — sustain and abstain.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.

Why shouldn't I know what's going on?" Jaypaw dug his claws into the grass. "It's not fair if I can't even be curious!" "Curiosity must be tempered with patience," Yellowfang insisted. "Knowledge is wasted on those without the wisdom to know how to use it. And wisdom comes only with time.

There was nothing wrong with fire … as long as you didn't stand too close. Something to keep in mind.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

The Bible says, "A soft answer turneth away wrath.

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

I refer those actions which work out the good of the agent to courage, and those which work out the good of others to nobility. Therefore temperance, sobriety, and presence of mind in danger, etc., are species of courage; but modesty, clemency, etc., are species of nobility.

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.