Best 113 quotes in «moderation quotes» category

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

Moderation in all things.

Moderation is essential in all things, madam, but never in my life have I failed to beat a teetotaller.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome.

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

My diabetes is such a central part of my life... it did teach me discipline... it also taught me about moderation... I've trained myself to be super-vigilant... because I feel better when I am in control.

Nothing in Moderation We all loved him.

My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]

So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

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

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

Practice moderation in all things except love.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

There is moderation in everything.

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

True happiness springs from moderation.

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

True faith, real and pure faith, cannot be practiced in moderation.

Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

Ah. That is the price of love, I'm afraid—the pain one suffers from its loss. I'm not convinced it's worth it. Perhaps if one must love, one should do so in moderation." "Moderation in love," she mused aloud. "It's not something that would inspire a poet, is it?" "A poet's view of the world would make for an uncomfortable life, wouldn't it? Everyone at the mercy of his or her passions, all of us tearing our hair out for the sake of love...

A cardinal tenet of conservatism is that social inertia is – and ought to be – strong. It discourages and, if necessary, defeats the political grandiosity of those who would attempt to engineer the future by rupturing connections with the past.

A soft luxurious course of habitual indulgence, is the practice of the bulk of modern Christians: and that constant moderation, that wholesome discipline of restraint and self-denial, which are requisite to prevent the unperceived encroachments of the inferior appetites, seem altogether disused, as the exploded austerities of monkish superstition... But the persons of whom we are now speaking, forgetting alike the duties they owe to themselves and to their fellow-creatures, often act as though their condition were meant to be a state of uniform indulgence, and vacant, unprofitable sloth... To multiply the comforts of affluence, to provide for the gratification of appetite, to be luxurious without diseases, and indolent without lassitude, seems the chief study of their lives. Others again seem more to attach themselves to what have been well termed the ‘pomps and vanities of this world.’ Magnificent houses, grand equipages, numerous retinues, splendid entertainments, high and fashionable connections, appear to constitute, in their estimation, the supreme happiness of life.

A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.

Being too careful can be more destructive than being utterly careless.

Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

Even years from now, once I've stopped drinking, I will never stop trusting extremes. I will always believe that anything worth having is worth having in excess. The good things are worth hoarding until you have a cookie-fat ass, sex-aching loins, joy that fires through you like popping popcorn, or love, the weakness at the sight of some boy who makes your chest ache like indigestion. If it's good for you, it ought to be good for you in any amount, and you should track down every available bit of it. And if it's toxic, if it turns your liver into a hard little rock of scar tissue, or curls your memory at the edges like something burned in a fire, or makes your stomach flop, or your mind ache, or your personality contorted, you shouldn't buy into the bullshit about temperance.

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

Everything in balance, everything in moderation – try not to go over the top in any direction but be free to explore & enjoy. Live heart-fully. I’m a writer & philosopher, of course I have the right to invent words! I try not to do it carelessly, I only write what sounds and feels right.