Quotes About Temperance

I cannot repeat too often that to control the child one must often control oneself.

Toute passion est bonne quand on en est maître, mais mauvaise quand on en est assujetti.

While bringing up my kids I had to strike a balance between being strict and being able to maintain my cool.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.

I don't usually prefer over-the-top action.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

I am not overconfident.

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

Don't be hungry when you go shopping, but don't overeat, either.

I'm not overly greedy.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice

Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, this is not easy.

To rule one's anger is well to prevent it is better.

Maybe you should shut your trap," Sundew suggested. "BurrMRRBRRGRR,

none of the peevishness and ill-nature so usual in the elderly.

When you win, say nothing, when you lose say less.

Any action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

Always shun whatever may make you angry.

Let anger's fire be slow to burn.

we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.

No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.