Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

— Barbara Mertz

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

— Barbara Mertz

The idea of excessive diversification is madness.

— Charlie Munger

Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged,…

— David Suzuki

I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully…

— Nouriel Roubini

“Leaders don’t give excessive vocal orders. They humbly involve people and together cooperate with them to make a change happen.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

— Francesca Annis

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it…

— Alexandre Dumas

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with…

— Gretchen Rubin

I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality.…

— Tom Rath

“I had a really fat friend. The next time I saw him he looked like me! He said he lost the weight by eating…

— Steven Magee

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that,

— Kate Winslet

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

— Thomas Aquinas

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

— Anonymous

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary…

— Andy Behrman