Quotes with temperance

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

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.

Temperance is a bridle of gold.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

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.

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.