Moderation Quotes

Whatever you do, do it in moderation

— Proverb

A little of what you fancy does you good.

— Marie Lloyd

“there is nothing like moderation.”

— Laozi

True happiness springs from moderation.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can't do anything in moderation.

— Ozzy Osbourne

Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry

— Christopher Paolini

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

— Michel de Montaigne

I have a number of vices, one of which is moderation.

— E. L. Doctorow

Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

— Victoria Moran

“Moderation is not a compromise; moderation is a passion; the passion of great judges.”

— G.K. Chesterton

I believe in everything in moderation, including exercise.

— Cheryl Burke

I believe in excess of everything - except moderation.

— Dorit Kemsley

Any form of self-deprecating humour is good in moderation.

— Chris McCausland

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

— Hesiod

There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need…

— Gail Simmons

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

— Rose Macaulay

“We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination,…

— Steve Maraboli

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that…

— Rick Riordan

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“the world had gone too far in its enthusiasm for moderation and the thing had to be stopped”

— Rebecca West

Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. *Love each other in moderation. That is the…

— William Shakespeare

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He…

— Karl Barth

The advice I have for beginners is the same philosophy that I have for runners of all levels of experience and ability…

— Bill Rodgers

“conformity. They believed in and followed the same rules, respecting parents and teachers above all. This was typical throughout Indiana—according to state…

— Jeff Guinn

After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and…

— Michel de Montaigne

“One of the strangest assumptions of present-day mental models is the idea that world of moderation must be a world of strict,…

— Donella H. Meadows

I just think everything in moderation. I've never been into diets and it can become an obsession for some people. At the…

— Rochelle Humes

I've never believed in dieting, but there are people out there who have problems. My advice would be don't ever stop yourself…

— Shilpa Shetty

Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has…

— Luce Irigaray

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about…

— Michelle Obama

“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil…

— Anne Brontë

To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger.…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

There's a price you pay for drinking too much, for eating too much sugar, smoking too much marijuana, using too much cocaine,…

— Frank Zappa

“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a…

— Samuel Johnson

“Religious moderation, insofar as it represents an attempt to hold on to what is still serviceable in orthodox religion, closes the door…

— Sam Harris

I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe…

— Theodore Roosevelt