Moderation Quotes - Page 14

• Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Hate, Extravagance

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• I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I’m a pretty petite young woman, and I just do everything in moderation and make sure that I just keep everything together.

  Naturi Naughton

  Snacks, Work Out, Soul

  "Naturi Naughton Talks: ‘The Playboy Club,’ ‘X-Men’ Role, Music And More". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending prelates.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Blood, History

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.367, Modern Library

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• Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. 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; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

  Patrick Henry

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Blessing

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• A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

  Cat Stevens

  Faith, School, Islam

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2011.

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• 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.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Feel Better, Discipline, Taught

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• My motto is: Live every day to the fullest - in moderation.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Motto, My Motto, Live Every Day

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• The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

  Artie Lange

  Drinking, Sometimes, Drink

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• Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

  Andre Gide

  Angel, Play, Joy

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• Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

  Charles Gounod

  Perfect, Heaven, Grace

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• We need more competitive races, ... We need the voice of moderation.

  John McCain

  Race, Voice, Needs

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• The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like sacred reading, spiritual guidance, moderation in eating, drinking and sexual expression, and above all, trying to be aware of the presence of God in other people and in everyday life.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Reading, Drinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

  Joseph Joubert

  Grace, Feelings, Movement

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.60

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• Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

  Edmund Burke

  Heart, Tyrants, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.581, Transaction Publishers

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• With the Arab Spring, came a great deal of hope that there would be a change towards more moderation, and opportunity for greater participation on the part of women in public life, and in economic life in the Middle East. But instead, we've seen in nation after nation, a number of disturbing events.

  Mitt Romney

  Spring, Opportunity, Numbers

  Source: genius.com

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• Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Jesus, Humility, Thinking

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• Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

  John Ortberg

  Procrastination, Safety, Way

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Years, Difficult Questions, Facts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “1903-1905”

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• All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

  Heraclitus

  Men, Knowing, Acting

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• Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Simple, Keys, Long

  Song: Barometer Soup, Album: Barometer Soup, 1995

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• The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Order, Long, Riches

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• The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Next, Towns

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• Unity, like so many good things, is good only in moderation.

  Jane Jacobs

  Unity, Good Things

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.19, Vintage

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