Top 51 Most Inspiring Temperance Quotes (MODERATION)

Top 11 Most Famous Temperance Quotes (BEST)

“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

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness. - Benjamin Haydon — Temperance in everything is requisite for **happiness**. – Benjamin Haydon

“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.”
C. S. Lewis

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. - Frances E. Willard — Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. – Frances E. Willard

“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

Discipline is needed in our temperance. - Sunday Adelaja — **Discipline** is needed in our temperance. – Sunday Adelaja

“It is the power of temperance, the steadying hand of wisdom, and the warmth of love for all that shapes my words even in the midst of the most heightened of disagreements. For if I allow temperance, wisdom and the warmth of love to guide any engagement I may have (even though it might be one with my most hostile enemy), I will have set the stage for a place where seemingly unassailable walls can come down, hands can be extended in unexpected friendship, and the impossible is made impossibly possible.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Abstinence is the surety of temperance. - Plato — Abstinence is the surety of temperance. – **Plato**

“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

Have more than you show, speak less than you know. - William Shakespeare — Have more than you show, speak less than you know. – **William Shakespeare**

“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.”
Arthur Helps

17 Thought-Provoking Temperance Quotes

“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 and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.”
John Ruskin

Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced. - C. A. Bartol — Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced. – C. A. Bartol

One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance. - Geoffrey Chaucer — One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance. – **Geoffrey Chaucer**

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 — 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

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. - Stephen Fry — Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to **experience** it fully. Temperance is wickedness. – Stephen Fry

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. - Aristotle — Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. – **Aristotle**

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. - Thomas Aquinas — Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the **passion**. – **Thomas Aquinas**

For pleasure, delight, peace and felicity live in method and temperance. - Margaret Cavendish — For pleasure, delight, **peace** and felicity live in method and temperance. – Margaret Cavendish

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. - Horace Mann — If temperance prevails, then **education** can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must **fail**. – **Horace Mann**

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer. - Wes Fesler — Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer. – Wes Fesler

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood. - William Penn — The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood. – William Penn

Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. - Gautama Buddha — Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. – **Gautama Buddha**

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. - Mark Twain — Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. – **Mark Twain**

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess. – **Jean-Jacques Rousseau**

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single. - Rajneesh — **Marriage** is an institution that teaches a man regularity, **frugality**, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single. – Rajneesh

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. - Saint Augustine — Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. – Saint Augustine

Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. - Theodore Parker — Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. – Theodore Parker

10 Wise Temperance Quotes on Good Health and Cleanliness

“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.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Health consists with temperance alone. - Alexander Pope — Health consists with temperance alone. – **Alexander Pope**

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance. - Joseph Joubert — In temperance there is ever **cleanliness** and elegance. – Joseph Joubert

“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.”
Robert E. Lee

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. - John Burns — I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. – John Burns

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age. - Marcus Tullius Cicero — **Exercise** and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age. – **Marcus Tullius Cicero**

“For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one’s strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.”
Aristotle

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. - Philip Sidney — The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. – Philip Sidney

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. – **Ralph Waldo Emerson**

3 Temperance Quotes on Military Services

“Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.”
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war. - William Lyon Mackenzie King — Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war. – William Lyon Mackenzie King

“As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.”
William Lyon Mackenzie King

3 Temperance Quotes for the Youth

“The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse.”
Ellen Key

“Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.”
Ezra Taft Benson

“The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.”
Billy Graham

3 Temperance Quotes on Politics

“The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.”
Billy Sunday

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes. - Billy Sunday — I am a temperance Republican down to my toes. – Billy Sunday

“These 21st-century ‘teavangelicals,’ who represent a considerable segment of the Republican party, are vastly different from their 19th-century forebears. Nineteenth-century evangelicals were concerned with societal ills such as temperance, slavery, the rise of industrialization and suffrage.”
Anthea Butler

4 Temperance Quotes That Will Make You Think

“Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars, the hotels, the waiting-rooms, the steamers, and even the stores, in crystal jugs or stone filters, and it is always iced. This may be either the result or the cause of the temperance of the people.”
Isabella Bird