Quotes about Temperance
Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.
- Charles Spurgeon
Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.
- George Washington
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
- Tertullian
If all the world should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' all-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
- John Milton
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
- CS Lewis
In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.
- Aristotle
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.
- Joel Osteen
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
- Cicero
We become just by performing just actions temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.
- Aristotle
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety, but profit.
- Clement of Alexandria
The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.
- Abraham Lincoln