53 Abstention Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous abstention quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational abstention quotes. Hopefully, these abstention quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your abstention knowledge!
Famous Abstention Quotes
Abstinence is the surety of temperance. — Plato
Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. — Horace Greeley
Abstinence is easier than temperance. — Seneca
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion. — Guy de Maupassant
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. — Saint Augustine
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. — Saint Augustine
So great is human weakness, that we must reckon amongst virtuous actions abstention from the evils which we are tempted to commit. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through abstinence, it becomes sublimated as spiritual energy. — Patanjali
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. — Epictetus
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. — Aristippus
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. — Frances E. Willard
It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul. — Benedict of Nursia
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity. — Seneca
Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger. — Pythagoras
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth. — Nouman Ali Khan
Short Abstention Quotes
- The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers. — Ludwig von Mises
- Believe, markets, never be beat, abstention, opportunities — Howard Marks
- Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention. — Penelope Fitzgerald
- An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. — Vida Dutton Scudder
- Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. — G. K. Chesterton
- VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions. — Ambrose Bierce
People Writing About Abstention
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Seneca |
1196 | 4543 |
 Saint Augustine |
707 | 10196 |
 Plato |
945 | 13426 |
 Horace Greeley |
59 | 565 |
 Guy de Maupassant |
74 | 1333 |
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
381 | 3820 |
More Abstention Quotes
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. — Abba Eban
When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence. — Patanjali
Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing. — Thorstein Veblen
The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. — Ludwig von Mises
To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position. — Ludwig von Mises
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd. — Aleister Crowley
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false. — Andrei Tarkovsky
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so. — Jose Saramago
Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech. — Nathaniel Altman
Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading. — Joseph Hertz
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself. — Miguel de Unamuno
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war. — Anatole France
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. — Ambrose Bierce
I have not had a moment's peace or happiness in respect to electromagnetic theory since November 28, 1846. All this time I have been liable to fits of ether dipsomania, kept away at intervals only by rigorous abstention from thought on the subject. — Lord Kelvin
Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part of man. It is created and increased by saving and maintained by the abstention from dissaving. — Ludwig von Mises
A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line — George Bernard Shaw
I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings. — Asoka
I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence. — Wayne Dyer
Patanjali said that when you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence. Steadfast means you never slip. I think my mission is to support people in being steadfast in not having thoughts of harm - thoughts of judgment, worry, or hatred - directed toward themselves or others. — Wayne Dyer
The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire. — Miguel de Unamuno
After the German abstention at the UN, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle commented that Germany doesn't always have to stand on the side of its traditional allies. Berlin can look for new partners all over the world. — Donald Rumsfeld
Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: 'Oh, I should tweet about this.' — George Saunders
Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our primacy as people in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate us from the domination of the pentagon of power. — Lewis Mumford
A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy? — Martin Bashir
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses. — Ludwig von Mises
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