Quotes About Temperance

What I've learned is that everything in life - and I mean, even the worst of it - can be turned into grace...the test is - for even one moment in our lives - not to strike back at something, no matter how bad it gets...when you're faced with the temptation to get angry or upset and to hit back - you just don't do it. You let the temptation roll over you and not touch you. The idea is not to add to the collective pain...and by not doing so, you make the world a better place.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

Jupiter will try to practise temperance but can

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted" (Galatians 6:1).

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

Let it be known that I only punched him once and not in the face.

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

Finishing first is nothing to brag about.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist then Pleasure.

Gluttony kills more then the sword.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

A wise man did not pour wildfire on a brazier. Instead he poured a fresh cup of wine.

Fasting strengthens control over our appetites, thus contributing to self-mastery.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

The lips that touch liquor must never touch mine!

My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its conseq

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.