moderation quotes

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

There is moderation even in excess.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

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

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there’s nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

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.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

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

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

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

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

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I’ll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

Health consists with temperance alone.

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

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.