Quotes About Temperance

In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.

As novelist Harry Crews once wrote, I'm the kind of person who—if he can't have too much of something—doesn't want any of it. In

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire we might nearly be free

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

Self-actualization, for a man, is self-mastery, the strength to govern his appetites and passions and not be governed by them.

restraint equals indulgence

We seem to be built with a faulty gauge for moderation.

drink alcoholic beverages ("Be ye not drunk with wine

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

Character Ethic as the foundation of success—things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.

literature in the first 150 years or so focused on what could be called the Character Ethic as the foundation of success—things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.

In stark contrast, almost all the literature in the first 150 years or so focused on what could be called the Character Ethic as the foundation of success—things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.

In stark contrast, almost all the literature in the first 150 years or so focused on what could be called the Character Ethic as the foundation of success—things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule. Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is representative of that literature. It is, basically, the story of one man's effort to integrate certain principles and habits deep within his nature.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much whiskey is just enough. — Mark Twain

What a woman must do at the Beginning is stay realistic and slow the relationship down. At the Beginning, you have a great deal of ego leverage and control. Use it to set the pace and tone that will lead to permanency. No matter how much you're tempted to go along with his Hollywood style, don't do it.

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.