Moderation Quotes

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

St. Augustine

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

Jean Paul Richter

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Samuel Johnson

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Henry Kissinger

I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason.

Edmund Burke

Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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 always a vice.

Thomas Paine

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Blaise Pascal

Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.

Jean Paul

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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

Mark Twain

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Frances E. Willard

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

Plautus

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

W Somerset Maugham

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Aristotle

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Francois de Salignac Fenelon

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

Donald Trump

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

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