Temperance Quotes
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Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
John Milton
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Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
Cyrus Augustus Bartol
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If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church?
Frances E. Willard
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The health of the soul is to have its faculties, reason, high spirit and desire happily tempered, with the reason in command and reining in the other two, like restive horses. The special name of this health is temperance, that is σωφροσύνη or 'thought-preserving,' for it creates a preservation of one of our powers, namely that of wise-thinking.
Philo
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Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
Aristotle
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
William Penn
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Abstinence is the surety of temperance.
Plato
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I am sure,
Though you can guess what temperance should be,
You know not what it is.
William Shakespeare
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For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
Aristotle
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Abstinence is easier than temperance.
Seneca the Younger
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Thomas Aquinas
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If all the world Should in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
John Milton
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Trends come like a series of ocean waves, bringing the high tide when things are good and, as conditions recede, the low tide appears. These trends come unexpectedly, unpredictably, and they have to be weathered with temperance, poise, and patience- good or bad.
Jesse Livermore
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The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
John Tillotson
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.
Socrates
