Quotes about Temperance
We are wise to use moderation in all things, meaning to allow ourselves just enough but not too much of anything. This helps us live balanced lives and keeps the doors of our lives closed to the enemy.
— Joyce Meyer
Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you're waiting.
— Joyce Meyer
Don't be quick to get angry, because anger is typical of fools" (Ecclesiastes 7:9). But Paul points out it is possible to be angry without sin when he says, "Be angry without sinning" (Ephesians 4:26).
— Darlene Zschech
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
— St. Basil
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
— John Donne
Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt to slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
— John Milton
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
— Cicero
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
— Cicero
If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.
— Confucius
It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk.
— Euripides
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
— Mahatma Gandhi