Quotes about Temperance

he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city

Despite the ebb and flow of our feelings, we can control the way we act. Patience, for instance, is not a feeling. Patience is the description of a behavior. One can choose to act patiently even while the feeling of frustration tempts him to choose inappropriate behavior. It is impossible to feel frustrated and feel patient at the same time, but one can be inundated with feelings of frustration and still display patience. Patience is a discipline. It is an action. Patience is a chosen response.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.