Moderation Quotes

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.

William Lloyd Garrison

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.

Steve Maraboli

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful

Samuel Johnson

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking

Friedrich Nietzsche

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Horace

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

Aristotle

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.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

Stanlicus

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

Plato

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

Tacitus

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

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

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Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.

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

Robert Clive

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Johann von Goethe

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

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

Mark Twain

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

Klemens Von Metternich

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

Henry Kissinger