128 Temperance Quotes
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Famous Temperance Quotes
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. — Frances E. Willard
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. — Thomas Aquinas
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. — Mark Twain
Abstinence is the surety of temperance. — Plato
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity. — Seneca
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. — Buddha
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. — Buddha
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. — Thomas Paine
Abstinence is easier than temperance. — Seneca
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. — Joseph Hall
Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue. — Lao Tzu
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. — Pythagoras
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. — Epicurus
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Short Temperance Quotes
- Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens
- A man of bad character punishes his own soul. — Al-Ghazali
- Have more than you show, Speak less than you know. — William Shakespeare
- Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. — Chuck Norris
- I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit — Elizabeth Taylor
- A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — Solomon
- Better a patient man than a warrior, one who controls his temper than one who takes a city. — Moroccan Proverbs
- The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. — Joseph Joubert
- Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them. — Daniel Handler
- The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. — Addison Mizner
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Virtue Of Temperance Quotes
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven. — Ephrem the Syrian
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. — Charles Kingsley
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue. — George Mason
To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. — Martin Seligman
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind. — Plutarch
As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society. — Oliver Goldsmith
Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice. — Epicurus
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. 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 a species of vice. — Thomas Paine
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. — G. K. Chesterton
Virtue is nothing but an act of loving that which is to be beloved, and that act is prudence, from whence not to be removed by constraint is fortitude; not to be allured by enticements is temperance; not to be diverted by pride is justice. — Francis Quarles
Bad Temper Quotes
It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves. — C. S. Lewis
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
Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. — Miller Williams
It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do. — Alan Sillitoe
Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life. — Josemaria Escriva
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. — Alfred Adler
There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything. — Lucille Ball
When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured. — Rumi
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me. — Emma Thompson
There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who have attained eminence and the highest honors because of good temper and morals. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Losing Temper Quotes
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. — Robert Frost
We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods. — Alain de Botton
My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper. — Joseph Hunter
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. — Frank Moore Colby
A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper. — David Gemmell
I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs? No. — Debbie Reynolds
It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it. — Sean O'Casey
I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands. — William Powell
If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection. — Howard Thurman
I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Temperate Quotes
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Tennyson
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people — Al-Ghazali
Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in tough situations; and temperance is love in training. — Dwight L. Moody
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier — Sam Manekshaw
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. — William E. Gladstone
These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body. — Gregory of Nazianzus
I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me. — Lisa Marie Presley
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving
I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense... — Beatrix Potter
Ill Tempered Quotes
I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it. — Harriet Martineau
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. — C. S. Lewis
Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am. — C. S. Lewis
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. — Hannah More
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from. — Honore de Balzac
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies. — Vladimir Nabokov
Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure. — Hosea Ballou
Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss. — Laurence Sterne
Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper. — Irwin Edman
Temper Tantrums Quotes
That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds. — James Lee Burke
Regrets are illuminations come too late. — Joseph Campbell
For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with temper tantrums and an exploding diaper--I know taking 10 minutes to get my game face on will reset my stress levels. It's a chance to check in and remind myself--you got this. — Jessica Alba
There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those. — Bill Parcells
At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup. — Kristin Hannah
Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late. — Joseph Campbell
Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted. — Lisa Scottoline
This is real. This is not a phase. This is not a temper tantrum. The average American who I believe makes this country work thinks the Republican Party is actually oriented against its interests and does not understand or believe the crisis they think the country's in. — Rush Limbaugh
People Writing About Temperance
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Seneca |
1196 | 4543 |
 Buddha |
1250 | 5513 |
 Frances E. Willard |
16 | 325 |
 Aristotle |
1252 | 18854 |
 Thomas Aquinas |
316 | 4431 |
 Mark Twain |
2433 | 47813 |
More Temperance Quotes
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. — John F. Kennedy
If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed. — Catharine Beecher
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. — Benjamin Franklin
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. — Lord Chesterfield
The incarnation began with Jesus and it has never stopped . . . God takes on flesh so that every home becomes a church, every child becomes the Christ-child, and all food and drink become a sacrament. God's many faces are now everywhere, in flesh, tempered and turned down, so that our human eyes can see him. — Ronald Rolheiser
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. — Samuel Smiles
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. — Sydney J. Harris
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. — Aristotle
(on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone; she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one. — Humphrey Bogart
A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience. — James Joyce
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. — Marya Mannes
There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors. — Chester A. Arthur
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid! — Euripides
The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. — Taylor Caldwell
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. — Benjamin Franklin
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. — David Hume
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates
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