Motivational Quotes

Moderation

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Moderation

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.

Aristotle

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

Metternich, Klemens Von

Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.

Paul, Jean

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Willard, Frances E.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Seneca

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Cicero, Marcus T.

It speaks volumes for a person that when placed in quite different situations, they display the same spirit of moderation.

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Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!

Clive, Robert

12.

Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.

13.

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

Seneca

14.

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.

Aristotle

15.

Let not turn fun to mischief.

Proverb

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Everything in moderation -- including moderation.

Steiman, Harvey

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You will go most safely in the middle.

Ovid

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Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He who drinks a glass a day shall live to die another way.

Stanlicus

20.

Moderate profits fill the purse.

Proverb, Italian

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Keep a mid course between two extremes.

Ovid

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

Twain, Mark

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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 case like the present.

Garrison, William Lloyd

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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Augustine, St.

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There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.

Johnson, Vera

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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.