Temperance Quotes

Peace and plenty are the rewards of temperance.

Rechabite slogan

Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

Benjamin Franklin

Eight parts of a full stomach sustain the man; the other two sustain the doctor.

Japanese Proverb

Trim not the house with tables and pictures, but paint and gild it with temperance; the one vainly feedeth the eyes, the other is an eternal ornament which cannot be defaced.

Epictetus

Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

Madame Anne Therese de Lambert

Temperance is the best physician.

Sir J Mason

Be temperate, and you will be healthy.

Benjamin Franklin

Temperance is the parent of health, cheerfulness, and old age.

G Mogridge

Nothing contributes more to the preservation of life than temperance.

R Bolton

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it from sickness.

Humboldt

Temperance and exercise how little soever they may be regarded, are the best means of preserving health.

L Murray

And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

1 Corinthians 9:25

Temperance is the preservation of the dominion of soul over sense, of reason over passion: the want of it destroys health, fortune, and conscience.

W Dodd

O temperance, thou fortune without envy; thou universal medicine of life, that clears the head and cleanses the blood, eases the stomach, strengthens the nerves and perfects digestion!

Sir W Temple

Temperance in eating, as well as in drinking, is a cardinal virtue; the great majority of mankind saturate their own death-warrants with their cups, and dig their graves with their teeth.

Magoon

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Frances E Willard

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

Margaret Cavendish

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Michel de Montaigne

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of a proactive person.

Stephen Covey

Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.

Jeremy Collier

A noble character is the result of self-discipline, of the subjection of the lower to the higher nature—the surrender of self for the service of love to God and man.

Ellen G White

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Proverbs 25:28

Temperance is the moderating of one’s desires in obedience to reason.

Cicero

It is good to exchange an intemperate life for one of temperance and sobriety.

Polemo

Temperance chiefly consists in restraining that concupiscence which the external senses, when any object grateful to them is offered, are apt to excite in us.

Limborch

The more the appetite is indulged, the more will be its clamours for gratification.

Ellen G White

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

Joubert

Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love or in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in any way but as it ought.

Ruskin

It is God’s purpose that the kingly power of sanctified reason, controlled by divine grace, shall bear sway in the lives of human beings. He who rules his spirit is in possession of this power.

Ellen G White

Reason should direct and appetite obey.

Cicero

Our physical well-being, our moral worth, our social happiness, our political tranquillity, all depend on that control of all our appetites and passions, which the ancients designed by the cardinal virtue of temperance.

Burke

Temperance is a bridle of gold.

Burton