Moderation Quotes - Page 7

• If we want our civilization to survive, we have to watch for the extremes. We have to reclaim our morality, both individually and as the society. To protect ourselves from extremisms, we have to maintain moderation.

  Ali Sina

  Civilization, Watches, Want

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Practice, Silence, Speech

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• Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses.

  John Calvin

  Grief, Mean, Adversity

  John Calvin “John Calvin's Bible Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistles To The Philippians, Colossians And Thessalonians”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.

  Victoria Moran

  Dieting, Flip, Sides

  "Dine Like a Yogi" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2012.

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• The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.

  Gelsey Kirkland

  Stress, Taken, Light

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• Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

  Voltaire

  Sleep, Exercise, Dark

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• You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

  Suzanne Somers

  Mean, Long, Littles

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• In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

  Doutzen Kroes

  Jobs, Giving Up, Believe

  Interview with Tarek Hijazi, www.askmen.com. January, 2011.

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• Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sobriety, Risk, Ill

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• My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

  Sean Astin

  Terrible, Knows, Diets

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• Ben & Jerry's is an indulgent dessert that should be eaten in moderation. You should not be replacing more than one meal a day with ice cream. We do not consider a pint or a tub of ice cream to be a single serving.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Ice Cream, Meals, Tubs

  Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• I run or hike three to four times per week and believe that an "everything in moderation" approach to dieting is the best way to keep your mind and body healthy and your taste buds happy.

  Ian Anthony Dale

  Running, Believe, Healthy

  "Actor Ian Anthony Dale: On ​​Being Stereotyped, ​​His Deep-Fried Childhood, and Letting Failure Make You Stronger". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm really into moderation. Too much of anything will harm you in the end. Too much sugar. Too much pasta. I'm into drugs as a teaching tool, which is why I only take hallucinogenics. I mean, it's not like I've never done cocaine, but, on the whole, if I can't see dancing elephants then I'm not interested.

  Tori Amos

  Teaching, Mean, Elephants

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• Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of his appetites and assumptions) and more resources to deal with it if it occurs (being better able to put it in perspective and maintain his own evenness of self-mastery). Tragedy as a dramatic form is meant to foster the ethos of sophrosyne or moderation, "nothing to excess"; it nurtures a sense of distance from the dominant illusions and delusions that may infect even aristoi.

  Kenny Smith

  Distance, Philosophy, Character

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• This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.

  Robert Mondavi

  Thinking, Aquariums, Essentials

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• In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

  Compay Segundo

  Order, Old You, Grows

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• I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now.

  Shane Warne

  Pie, Breakfast, Spaghetti

  "Shane Warne: I haven't had surgery.. my new look is the radiant glow of love" by Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 02, 2011.

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• It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Adversity, Mind, Bears

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 26, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 637-38, 44 B.C..

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• It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essence, Sobriety, Vow

  Mahatma Gandhi (1929). “Young India”

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• The key to happiness. Hm.... There are just so many factors. I think it's just a way of being. It's about.... every little thing in moderation. Whether it be stress, anger, joy, depression.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Stress, Thinking, Keys

  "Jimmy Fallon Interviews Jimmy Fallon". Interview with Eric Spitznagel and Peter Yang, www.menshealth.com. December 23, 2014.

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• The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Philosophical

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.

  Mat Hoffman

  Drinking, Mean, Who I Am

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• Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the Bible. Wine has been praised for centuries by statesmen, philosophers, poets, and scholars. Wine in moderation is an integral part of our culture, heritage and gracious way of life.

  Robert Mondavi

  Wine, Civilization, Culture

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• Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

  John Newton

  Exercise, People, Principles

  John Newton (1830). “Forty-one Letters on Religious Subjects, Originally Published Under the Signatures of Omicron and Vigil”, p.145

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• Moderation is the key so I work certain amout of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Keys, Certain, Time Off

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