Quotes about Temperance

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while

All extremes are pernicious in various ways.

POINT TO PONDER: Blessed are the balanced.

Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?

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

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Confucius said the doctrine of the mean was the highest virtue, and rare among men. The Buddhists call it the middle way. Aristotle saw moderation as the essence of virtue. I say moderation in all things, even moderation.