Moderation Quotes - Page 3

• In everything the middle road is best.

  Plautus

  Middle

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• The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half.

  Eric Maisel

  Two, Half, Way

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.

  Plutarch

  Quality, Benefits, Lessons

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.292, 谷月社

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• Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

  Ovid

  Middle Path, Path, Middle

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• Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.

  Dan Millman

  Courage, Fear, Laughter

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Humility, Order

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• Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Names, Purity, Temperance

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

  Alexander Pope

  Sides, States, Middle

  Alexander Pope (1836). “Poetical Works, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.129

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• 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.

  Moliere

  Wise, Patience, Wisdom

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• Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

  Samuel Johnson

  Successful, Firmness, Firm

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson: maxims and observations. To which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the doctor, his life [&c.].”, p.284

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• A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Success, Men, Compassion

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• There is moderation in everything.

  Horace

  Philosophical

  Satires bk. 1, no. 1, l. 106

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• 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

  Keys, Long, Lasting Love

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• Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Men, Confusion

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

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• The Great Chief also honours modesy.

  David Daniels

  Chiefs, Honour

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• When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Ignorance, Skills

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.55

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

  Lord Byron

  America, People, Rude

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

  Husayn ibn Ali

  Frustrated, Way, Difficulty

  "Bihārul Anwār" by Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi, vol.78, p. 128,

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• Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

  Karl Barth

  Limits, Mysterious, Above And Below

  Karl Barth (2003). “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I believe in two concepts: Everything in moderation and break a sweat every day.

  Ariana Madix

  Believe, Sweat, Two

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Novelists, Littles

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.28, City Lights Publishers

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• That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mediocrity, Charity, Selflessness

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

  Owen Feltham

  Angel, Men, Quitting

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• There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Believe, Salvation

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• There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Lying, Limits, Wealth

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author”, p.20

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