36 Quotes On Practicing Moderation

In an age where excess and overindulgence are often glorified, the timeless wisdom of practicing moderation is more relevant than ever. Striking a balance in various aspects of life can lead to greater fulfillment, improved health, and a sense of peace. This collection of 36 quotes on practicing moderation serves as a gentle reminder of the power and elegance found in restraint. Whether it's about work, health, or personal relationships, these insights encourage us to embrace a more measured and mindful approach to life. Explore these thought-provoking quotes that celebrate the art of moderation and inspire a harmonious existence.

1. “Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.” - Anne Sexton

2. “Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,So men against their willLearn to practice moderation.Favours come to us from gods.” - Aeschylus

3. “I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.” - Koren Zailckas

4. “Moderation in all things, especially moderation.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

5. “Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.” - Samuel Butler

6. “Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good...” - Milan Kundera

7. “People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.” - Laurence Sterne

8. “Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.” - Flann O'Brien

9. “Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.” - William S. Burroughs

10. “Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yieldthemselves up when taken little by little.” - Plutarch

11. “Here's to responsibility, twice a week.',” - Stephenie Meyer

12. “There are those people who can eat one piece of chocolate, one piece of cake, drink one glass of wine. There are even people who smoke one or two cigarettes a week. And then there are people for whom one of anything is not even an option.” - Abigail Thomas

13. “A couple of years ago my sister Judy and I were each given a box of truffles. The tiny print said two pieces contained 310 calories and there were six pieces in each box. We were sitting on the bus headed downtown, quietly doing our calculations: Judy was dividing by two and I was multiplying by three. When she realized what I was doing, a look came over her face that is hard to describe. 'I lost all hope for you' she says now.” - Abigail Thomas

14. “O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.” - Plato

15. “When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.” - Cicero

16. “Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*” - William Shakespeare

17. “Everything is good in moderation. Even moderation.” - Iveta Cherneva

18. “Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.” - William Blake

19. “If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.” - Mark Twain

20. “The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.” - Plato

21. “I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.” - Criss Jami

22. “Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.” - Brandon Sanderson

23. “Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.” - Jostein Gaarder

24. “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” - Barry Goldwater

25. “The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.” - David C. Day

26. “There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

27. “I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself – which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue.” - Anne Brontë

28. “Moderation: a median with no means, praised by those with no misfortunes, practiced by those with no merits.” - Bauvard

29. “Moderates always seem to deal in hopes rather than in facts.” - Ken Follett

30. “I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments.” - Andrew Levkoff

31. “The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

32. “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

33. “Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry” - Christopher Paolini

34. “A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be.” - Thomas Paine

35. “Complete abstention may be much easier than moderation.” - Marjorie Pay Hinckley

36. “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