Taoism Moderation Quotes

#1. Don't go in and hide; don't come out and shine; stand stock-still in the middle.

Zhuangzi

#2. I love voting day. I love the sight of my fellow citizens lining up to make their voices heard.

Beth Broderick

#3. By moderation one can be generous.

Laozi

#4. Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

John Jacob Abel

#5. As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.

Patrick Ness

#6. The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade school. Rebecca had some drawing talent, you could tell, but Simon's sketches of people all looked like parking meters with tufts of hair.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.

Laozi

#8. Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age ... because "everything is global, man!"

Ben Dreyfuss

#9. The laws you see today are a direct consequence of economic illiteracy in the general population. If every voter learned economics tonight, the laws would change tomorrow.

Ben Mathew

#10. When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.

Laozi

#11. Economic engineering is about the design and analysis of frameworks for achieving specific economic objectives.

Ben Bernanke

#12. To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?

Yisroel Salanter

#13. When I decided to follow my dream, I had already discarded my life.

~ Zoro ~

Eiichiro Oda

#14. I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.

Laozi

#15. To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.

Laozi

#16. It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, Wait on time.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#17. Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.

John Kenneth Galbraith