Top 100 Quotes About Moderation
#1. There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.
Laurence Sterne
#2. I try to eat well, but I don't deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation.
Regina King
#3. My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation.
Lindsay Lohan
#4. There is nothing like moderation.
Lao-Tzu
#6. Grief, as in everything, should be experienced in moderation. There is a time to grieve heavily but then there is a time to set it aside and become happy in life again.
Aleksandra Layland
#7. The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
Benjamin Disraeli
#8. Moderation is not just finding the midpoint between two opposing poles and opportunistically planting yourself there.
David Brooks
#9. It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.
Hanan Ashrawi
#10. I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight ... I agree.
Koren Zailckas
#11. There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
J. William Fulbright
#13. The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.
Gelsey Kirkland
#14. An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people.
Oscar Arias
#16. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
#17. The advice I have for beginners is the same philosophy that I have for runners of all levels of experience and ability
consistency, a sane approach, moderation and making your running an enjoyable, rather than dreaded, part of your life.
Bill Rodgers
#18. Everything is good in moderation. Even moderation.
Iveta Cherneva
#19. Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
Oscar Wilde
#20. The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis ... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
Pope John Paul II
#21. So why has this potentially self-destructive system of economic arrangements lasted? Probably because of habits of restraint, honesty and moderation which accompanied its emergence.
Tony Judt
#22. We weren't ashamed to enjoy food and alcohol in moderation - why were we so afraid of sex?
Sierra Simone
#23. Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
Pliny The Elder
#24. Ben & Jerry's is an indulgent dessert that should be eaten in moderation. You should not be replacing more than one meal a day with ice cream. We do not consider a pint or a tub of ice cream to be a single serving.
Jerry Greenfield
#25. The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan, or it will continue down the path of 'sporadic moderation.'
Todd Tiahrt
#26. it was reserved for Augustus to relinquish the ambitious design of subduing the whole earth, and to introduce a spirit of moderation into the public councils.
Edward Gibbon
#27. Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.
Ambrose Bierce
#28. The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.
Artie Lange
#29. My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.
Sean Astin
#30. I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is TOO MUCH. I told Mrs. Hammond so firmly, when the last pair came.
L.M. Montgomery
#31. So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.
Kenneth H. Cooper
#32. For philosophy, Socrates, if pursued in moderation and at the proper age, is an elegant accomplishment, but too much philosophy is the ruin of human life.
Plato
#33. The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle.
#34. Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise ...
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#35. I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.
Marya Hornbacher
#36. Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.
Teresa Of Avila
#37. If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending prelates.
Edward Gibbon
#38. Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
Alexander Hamilton
#40. Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Francois Fenelon
#42. The American people are not remarkable for moderation. They despise halfness. They will go with him who goes farthest and stay with him who stays longest. What the country thinks of half-men and half-measures is seen by the last election. We repudiate all such men and all such measures.
Frederick Douglass
#43. Religious moderation springs from the fact that even the least educated person among us simply knows more about certain matters than anyone did two thousand years ago.
Sam Harris
#44. We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#45. I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.
Kurt Sutter
#46. Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.
Stephen King
#47. Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.
John Newton
#48. Virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.
David Hume
#49. I believe that everything in moderation is best.
Miranda Kerr
#50. It's very alarming to see what's happening in the Muslim world. And it's about time we come to our senses and realize that moderation is the only path that will ensure peace and stability for the Muslim world, and for the wider world.
Najib Razak
#51. The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility.
-Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy
Erik Larson
#52. The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.
Rick Riordan
#53. We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous ... but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.
Steve Maraboli
#54. There can be no doubt that the love of wealth and the spirit of moderation cannot exist together in citizens of the same state to any considerable extent; one or the other will be disregarded.
Plato
#55. One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.
Mahatma Gandhi
#56. Could hell be described as too much of anything without a break? Are variety,
moderation and balance instruments we use to keep us from boiling in any inferno of
excess,' whether it be cheesecake or ravenous sex?
Jean-Paul Sartre
#57. Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.
Harry Vardon
#58. Build your life in self-control
purity, moderation in food and drink, and obedience to the will Divine. and you will have built well !!!!
Tanu Reshma B Singh
#59. Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Democritus
#60. Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.
Thomas Boswell
#62. Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.
Jostein Gaarder
#63. Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.
Isocrates
#66. Indeed, moderation is my middle name (though I do not often use it in signing legal documents)
W.C. Fields
#67. Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
John Ortberg
#68. The surest way for those who want to rule
is praising moderation, talking of peace and quiet.
Seneca.
#69. Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.
David Gilmour
#70. When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander Hamilton
#71. I've learned from my French husband and the way they eat, it's all about moderation. And that's really sustainable.
Kim Raver
#72. Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
Victoria Moran
#73. there is no shortage of reading material in this house. Charlotte is an excellent writer, but Mr. Shakespeare is better, and if it's Branwell's wickedness you like, Papa says we may read Lord Byron in moderation." Emily
Lena Coakley
#74. Moderation is necessary even in our desire for knowledge so as not to know things badly.
Baltasar Gracian
#76. Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
Aaron Koblin
#77. People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.
Rhea Seehorn
#79. Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Benjamin Disraeli
#80. Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as wisdom, moderation, truth, leaving to the other sex the weight of a madness that cannot be acknowledged or accommodated.
Luce Irigaray
#82. If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac
#83. Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.
Jay McInerney
#84. Everything in moderation except whiskey, and sometimes too much whiskey is just enough.
Mark Twain
#85. Do everything in moderation, even moderation.
Confucius
#86. To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
Blaise Pascal
#87. I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.
Karl Rove
#88. 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
#89. And so this added consideration - that she never get pregnant - contributed to the moderation of their coupling, which was almost always managed under conditions harsh enough to win the approval of New England's founding fathers
John Irving
#90. I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.
Nancy Lam
#91. Citing both the Buddha and Aristotle, Sachs makes the case for a "middle path," a path of moderation and balance between work and non-work (what he calls, quaintly in this day and age, "leisure"), savings and consumption, self-interest and compassion, individualism and citizenship.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#92. If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Epictetus
#93. The Greek poets had praised virtue as taking several specific forms: wisdom; courage; moderation; justice; and piety.
Melissa Lane
#94. The wall between writing and painting is just good grammar.
Moderation in moderation.
Fun is scary with a happy ending.
Just love. If love doesn't transform that which annoys you, it will be easier to tolerate.
Emily Thornton Calvo
#95. I work out, and I try to stay active and fit so I can enjoy certain foods that I like to eat. I try to keep everything in moderation. I used to be insane about it.
Cameron Mathison
#96. In fact, I love all repose and all that reposes, all thrift and moderation, and am in my inmost self, unfriendly toward any haste and agitation.
Robert Walser
#97. One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too
deeply?
Diane Ackerman
#98. Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.
Garth Nix
#99. It does people good to have to do things they don't like ... in moderation.
L.M. Montgomery
#100. Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.
William Lloyd Garrison
