Moderation Quotes - Page 6

• The advice I have for beginners is the same philosophy that I have for runners of all levels of experience and ability -- consistency, a sane approach, moderation and making your running an enjoyable, rather than dreaded, part of your life.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Philosophy, Advice

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• Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

  Barbara Bretton

  Chocolate, Honey, Motto

  Barbara Bretton (2001). “A Soft Place to Fall”, Berkley

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• Guest blogging is probably the sort of thing that you should be thinking about doing in moderation.

  Matt Cutts

  Thinking, Guests, Blogging

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• ... I gave as an offering my all to Him Who had won me and saved me, my property, my fame, my health, my very words... In considering all these things, I preferred Christ. And the words of God were made sweet as honeycombs to me, and I cried after knowledge and lifted up my voice for wisdom. There was moreover the moderation of anger, the curbing of the tongue, the restraint of the eyes, the discipline of the belly, and the trampling under foot of the glory which clings to the earth.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Sweet, Eye, Voice

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• Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Vices, Affair, Virtue

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophy, Divine, Humans

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• The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Desire, Fortune

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• I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Champion, Excess, Foe

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I always strive to keep a balance with my fears. I don't like to be ruled by them. At the same time, I don't like the idea of living my life totally free of any fears. I like having that moderation.

  Zoe Saldana

  Ideas, Balance, Living My Life

  "Zoe Saldana ‘Star Trek’ Interview with Kam Williams". newsblaze.com. May 4, 2009.

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• On my show I share all these yummy, fattening recipes, but I tell people, in moderation, in moderation. You can have that little piece of pie.

  Paula Deen

  Yummy, Pie, People

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• No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Party, America, Democracy

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• It is not to the moderation and justice of others we are to trust for fair and equal access to market with out productions, or for our due share in the transportation of them; but to our own means of independence, and the firm will to use them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Justice, Independence

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.552, Library of America

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• As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.

  Solon

  Men, Blessing, Giving

  "Solon". Book by Plutarch, ch. 27; translation by Bernadotte Perrin, 1497.

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• Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fall, Greatness, Envy

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• As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.

  Herbert Spencer

  Fall, Self, Long

  "The Principles of Ethics" by Herbert Spencer, (Ch. 10), 1897.

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• If you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Too Much, Enough, Ifs

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• In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours. The trouble with your robust and full bodied faiths, however, is, that they begin to cut each others throats too soon, and for getting on in the world and establishing a modus vivendi these pestilential refinements and reasonablenesses and moderations have to creep in.

  William James

  Believe, Heart, Cutting

  Letter to John Jay Chapman, April 5, 1897.

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• Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wisdom, Passion, Way

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The Academic Questions, Treatise de Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of Marcus Tullius Cicero: With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.114

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• For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

  Bobby Flay

  Fast Food, Carbs, Kicks

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• I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.

  Kurt Sutter

  Gratitude, Successful, Color

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• I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Judgement, Brain, Caution

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

  Eminem

  I Realized, Know How, Knows

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• I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.

  Rhea Seehorn

  Exercise, Decision, Acting

  "Rhea Seehorn of Better Call Saul: Learning from Loved Ones". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The civilization, so often vaunted by the learned exponents of arts and sciences, will, if allowed to overleap the bounds of moderation, bring great evil upon men. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Knowing. If carried to excess, civilization will prove as prolific a source of evil as it had been of goodness when kept within the restraints of moderation.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Art, Men, Civilization

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• Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Men, Order

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