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

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

Willard, Frances E.

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

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Augustine, St.

Everything in moderation -- including moderation.

Steiman, Harvey

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Stanlicus

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Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Seneca

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Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.

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

Johnson, Vera

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

Clive, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aristotle

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Let not turn fun to mischief.

Proverb

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Keep a mid course between two extremes.

Ovid

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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You will go most safely in the middle.

Ovid

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

Paul, Jean

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Moderate profits fill the purse.

Proverb, Italian

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

Metternich, Klemens Von

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Aristotle