Moderation Quotes
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Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
Victoria Moran -
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline and moderation. Explorations among the ruins of the remote past have carried curious men all over the face of the earth… Yet in truth, no science is more adventurous than archaeology, if adventure is thought of as a mixture of spirit and deed.
Kurt Wilhelm Marek
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I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.
Rhea Seehorn -
But God never seems capable of moderation
N.D. Wilson -
Most men are not kept within the bounds of moderation by mere admonition, or even by example; it is absolutely necessary to punish them by disfranchisement, by exile, or by death.
Cassius Dio -
I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight
Melissa Etheridge -
Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.
Blaise Pascal
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I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.
Genghis Khan -
In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work
Barbara Taylor Bradford -
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Epictetus -
Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.
Euripides -
Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
Daniel N. Robinson -
But the fact is that when wine is taken in moderation, it gives rise to a large amount of breath, whose character is balanced, and whose luminosity is strong and brilliant. Hence wine disposes greatly to gladness, and the person is subject to quite trivial exciting agents. The breath now takes up the impression of agents belonging to the present time more easily than it does those which relate to the future; it responds to agents conducive to delight rather than those conducive to a sense of beauty.
Avicenna
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I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
Moderation, which consists in 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 -
Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.
Lao Tzu -
I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.
Lao Tzu -
Don't overdo the booze especially while flying - just because it's there doesn't mean you need to drink it. Everything in moderation.
Alan Titchmarsh -
I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
W. S. Gilbert
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We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.
William Shakespeare -
My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.
Sean Astin -
The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.
Helen Suzman -
I'm not the athlete I was when I was training for the Olympics in '92 or when I was working out every single day. I have to live in moderation: I work out three or four days a week, and I smile while I'm working out - I really do enjoy it. I work out with my girlfriends and make it a social competition.
Summer Sanders