temperate behavior Quotes

I decided that there was only one place to make money in the mutual fund business, as there is only one place for a temperate man to be in a saloon: behind the bar and not in front of it.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in every case.

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

I shall ever repeat it, that mankind are governed not by extremes, but by principals of moderation.

In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . .

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry