40 Inspiring Quotes about
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
(Epictetus)
Behavior within reasonable limits, neither excessive nor extreme
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied…
(William Shakespeare)
Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion.
(Ellen Glasgow)
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
(W. Somerset Maugham)
Moderation is a beautiful thing when extremes, although they exist, are the exception and not the rule.
(Kelly Borsheim)
There’s such a thing as too much point on a pencil.
(H. Allen Smith)
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
(Francois de la Rochefoucauld)
It is better to rise from life as from a banquet – neither thirsty nor drunken.
(Aristotle)
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
(Joseph Hall)
‘Always’ is almost always wrong; ‘never’ is almost never right.
(Valerie Tarico)
Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
(Thomas Paine)
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
(Seneca)
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
(Benjamin Disraeli)
All things, but in moderation, including moderation.
(proverb)
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
(Democritus)
Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.
(Zbigniew Brzezinski)
Live every day to the fullest – in moderation.
(Lindsey Lohan)
Moderation, not deprivation.
(Carnie Hall)
Moderation is the key of lasting enjoyment.
(Hosea Ballou)
Practice moderation in all things except love.
(Gary Zukav)
Moderation in all things.
(Terence)
Moderation is the secret of survival.
(Manly Hall)
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
(Henry Kissinger)
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
(Augustine of Hippo)
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
(Blaise Pascal)
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
(Epicurus)
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
(Confucius)
All the world is a birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
(George Harrison)
…moderation in all things, including moderation.
(multiple attributions)
In moderating, not in satisfying desires, lies peace.
(Reginald Heber)
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
(Seneca the Younger)
The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.
(Eric Maisel)
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the cause of justice is no virtue.
(Barry Goldwater)
Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.
(Teresa of Avila)
Wisdom has its excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
(Michel de Montaigne)
Moderation shifts when extremes do.
(Mason Cooley)
The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.
(Rick Riordan)
It does people good to have to do things they don’t like in moderation.
(Anne Shirley)
It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity in moderation.
(Cicero)
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
(Jim Rohn)
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
(Samuel Johnson)
