Quotes on Moderation

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

My diabetes is such a central part of my life... it did teach me discipline... it also taught me about moderation... I've trained myself to be super-vigilant... because I feel better when I am in control.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.

Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

All things in moderation, including moderation.

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.