Do you want to give up alcohol, yet you find it difficult? Or are you prompting to help people break out of alcoholism and live a good life? World Temperance Day is the best opportunity to do so with enthusiasm and more energy. This day encourages people to give up alcohol for the better.
It is always observed on 3rd October every year. This great Temperance movement helps promote moderate use of alcohol or leaving alcohol completely. It is also a day to reflect on how alcohol harms society. This article has inspiring quotes that will help you create awareness and encourage people to give up on alcohol.
Historical Quotes on Temperance
History plays a major role in guiding a futuristic view of how people should act. Read these quotes to help you understand why temperance is essential.
1. 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.
2. Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
3. Temperance is a tree which as for its roots, has very little contentment and for its calm and peace.
4. Temperance is a corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.
5. The ingredients of a healthy and long life are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and a little care.
6. Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you can only do with temperance.
7. Discipline is needed in our temperance.
8. Abstinence is the surety of temperance.
9. Have more than you show and speak less than you know.
10. Live in the method and temperance for pleasure, delight, peace, and felicity.
11. You cannot satisfy others as long as nothing satisfies you.
12. How to Act: Never under compulsion, out of selfishness, without forethought, with misgivings.
13. It is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more that is poor.
14. Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
15. I neither drink nor smoke because my schoolmaster impressed upon me cardinal virtues: cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind, and temperance.
Quotes from Famous Personalities
Most influential people learn a lot from their mistakes, coming up with ideas to solve them. You can draw their critical lessons from the following quotes identifying with temperance.
1. “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.” Socrate
2. “Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.” Frances E. Willard.
3. “Temperance is simply the disposition of the mind which binds the passion.” Thomas Aquinas.
4. “If temperance prevails, then education prevails; if temperance fails, then education must fail.” Horace Mann.
5. “Temperance is everything requisite for happiness.” Benjamin Haydon.
6. “Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.” Wes Felser.
7. “None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing.” Abraham Lincoln.
8. “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.
9. “Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.” Saint Augustine.
10. “Temperance and labor are two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
11. “ 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 who is listening to Bach or reading Plate Plato in a state of pride.” C.S. Lewis.
12. “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.
13. “The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.” William Penn.
14. “I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.” Billy Sunday.
15. “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.
Modern Views on Temperance
Although many people today ignore what alcohol does to society, understanding its concept is essential. Here are what specialists say about temperance in our modern day.
1. Being forced to work and to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and contentment, and a hundred virtues that the idle will never do.
2. Health consists of temperance alone.
3. Joy, temperance, and repose slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
4. There are 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.
5. Temperance is a meaning about pleasures.
6. For pleasure, delight, peace, and felicity live in the method and temperance.
7. I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But certainly, temperance has always succeeded in reducing their number.
8. Few will deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation war.
9. 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 effect.
10. Temperate temperance is the best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
11. Temperance must be free and not forced to be a virtue.
12. Temperance is the power that governs the most intense energy and prevents its acting in a way but as ought.
13. Temperance is when someone abstains for a good reason from something he does and it does not benefit him.
14. Every wrong cannot avenge one: according to the occasion, everyone who knows how must use temperate.
15. Temperance is the nurse of virtue.
Inspirational Sayings on Moderation and Balance
Are you looking for inspirational sayings on moderation and balance? Read on, for we have rounded up the best moderation and balance sayings to inspire you to live a positive, moderate, and balanced life.
1. Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
2. Everything in moderation, including moderation.
3. Be moderate to taste the joy of life in abundance.
4. The virtue of justice consists of moderation, as wisdom regulates.
5. Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
6. Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.
7. Extremes are easy. Strive for balance, the ultimate goal.
8. It’s all about moderation. You need to find your balance.
9. Life is meant to be enjoyed in moderation, not can’ts and cans.
10. Moderation is the balance of life.
11. The true master lives in truth, goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
12. Living a life of balance and moderation is about having a sense of independence and connectedness.
13. The best safest thing is to keep balance in your life and acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are a wise man.
14. Happiness is the place between too little and too much. To go beyond is too wrong as to fall short.
15. I exercise moderation and balance. Excess tends to cause suffering for myself and others. A balanced life creates personal well-being.
Conclusion
We hope we have done you justice by collecting World Temperance Day Wishes, quotes, and messages you can share with your family, friends, and loved ones. You can celebrate this day by educating and creating awareness about this important day by sharing your thoughts, too.
Alcoholism makes a bad impression on our society and children. You can make these thoughts authentic by acknowledging the importance of this day and promoting peace by stopping the consumption of alcohol. At least you will have put a smile on a family and hope to those distracted by alcoholic behavior.
