Quotes on Moderation

To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.

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.

By moderation one can be generous.

When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.

To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder the Prophet Joseph Smith urged, "Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 178). Hence annihilation - not moderation - is the destination! . . . Meekness is the real cure, for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it!

Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as wisdom, moderation, truth, leaving to the other sex the weight of a madness that cannot be acknowledged or accommodated.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

Wisdom comes through suffering._x000D_ Trouble, with its memories of pain,_x000D_ Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,_x000D_ So men against their will_x000D_ Learn to practice moderation._x000D_ Favours come to us from gods.

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Moderation in all things - including moderation.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity