Best 113 quotes in «moderation quotes» category

The cardinal virtues are self-control, moderation, kindness, generosity, justice, and truthfulness tempered by discretion

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.

The man who shuns and fears everything and stands up to nothing becomes a coward; the man who is afraid of nothing at all, but marches up to every danger becomes foolhardy. Similarly the man who indulges in pleasure and refrains from none becomes licentious (akolastos); but if a man behaves like a boor (agroikos) and turns his back on every pleasure, he is a case of insensibility. Thus temperance and courage are destroyed by excess and deficiency and preserved by the mean.

To know what one must forbid oneself.

The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.

To rouse the countra frae the caul' morality o' a deid moderation.

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good...

You did your best to be a good student. You chopped and cooked and measured and served according to her wishes. But sometimes you wondered if the stall could stand to be upgraded with modern comfort food. With pandan ensaymada instead of the increasingly popular but also growingly common ube, the fresh bread from the oven and the cheese still melting, sweetly fragrant from the infusion of those steeped leaves and as simple as a summer morning. Or chopped watermelons in bulalo soup to replace tomatoes, for that extra tang. Or even pork adobo, but with chili and sweet pineapples. You had so many ideas.

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.

Add anchovies to almost anything, in moderation, and it will taste better.

Ah, well. Life's too short for moderation, wouldn't you say?

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

By moderation one can be generous.

Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation.

Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it.

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

I enjoy it [smoking marijuana] once in a while. There is nothing wrong with that. Everything in moderation. I wouldn't call myself a pot-head.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

I have a wonderfully hedonistic appetite, and if I wasn't really strict with myself, I'd weigh 300 pounds. I'm not good with moderation.

If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.

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.

I say no to nothing, yes to moderation. Thats how I approach everything. No matter if its candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, youre satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.

I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.

I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.

In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work

I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now.

It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

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.

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Moderation in all things, especially moderation.

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

I've been a vegetarian, I've been a Paleo, and now I believe in the everything-in-moderation diet.

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

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.

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.