Abstemiousness Quotes & Sayings

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers. — Ahmed Ben Bella

In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual eminently calculated to do himself credit as a scientific traveler. — Joseph Dalton Hooker

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it. — Robert E.Lee

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness. — Francis Bacon

Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring all their propensities under the control of the higher powers, and to discern between right and wrong, the sacred and the common. — Ellen G. White

I'm not the most loved person on the planet. People assume they understand who I am by what I do. — Mark T Bertolini

Abstemiousness in her daily habits, it was part of her pride — Elizabeth Gaskell

The idea of flying in general does not appeal to me. I can barely understand why people want to fly at all, other than that it's occasionally necessary. — Ridley Scott

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. — Ambrose Bierce

Hail, high Excess especially in wine,
To thee in worship do I bend the knee
Who preach abstemiousness unto me
My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine.
Precept on precept, aye, and line on line,
Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree
With reason as thy touch, exact and free,
Upon my forehead and along my spine.
At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup,
With the hot grape I warm no more my wit;
When on thy stool of penitence I sit
I'm quite converted, for I can't get up.
Ungrateful he who afterward would falter
To make new sacrifices at thine altar! — Ambrose Bierce

We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch. — Marcus Aurelius

Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in Divine power-these are the true remedies. — Ellen G. White

From that day, I vowed never to squander a moment's care over the good opinion of others. May they rot in hell. You have heard of my abstemiousness in matters of food and sex. Here is why: I punished myself. If I caught my thoughts straying to another's opinion of me, I sent myself to bed without supper. As for women, I likewise permitted myself none. I missed no few meals, and no small pleasure, before I brought this vice under control. — Steven Pressfield

Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much. — Ted Dekker

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. — Sigmund Freud