80 Moderate Life Quotes
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Famous Moderate Life Quotes
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. — Epicurus
Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending. — Robert W. Service
Keep a mid course between two extremes. — Ovid
Good health is about balance and moderation, not extremes. — Rhonda Patrick
Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue. — Lao Tzu
The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit. — Doug Stanhope
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. — Joseph Hall
To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. — William Londen
All things in moderation, including moderation. — Socrates
In everything the middle road is best. — Plautus
Everything in moderation, including moderation. — Oscar Wilde
Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health. — Julia Child
The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. — Lao Tzu
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates
Moderate Quotes
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly. — Hippocrates
There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. — Otto von Bismarck
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. — Moli
I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional — Matthew Gray Gubler
The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim. — Marco Polo
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton
Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards. — Marcus Luttrell
Being Moderate Quotes
You must be deadly serious in training. When I say that, I do not mean that you should be reasonably diligent or moderately in earnest. I mean that your opponent must always be present in your mind, whether you sit or stand or walk or raise your arms. — Gichin Funakoshi
Raising a child is like taking care of someone who's on way too many shrooms, while you yourself are on a moderate amount of shrooms. I am not confident in my decisions, but I know you should not be eating a mousepad. — Ron Funches
Inadequate sleep—even moderate reductions for just one week—disrupts blood sugar levels so profoundly that you would be classified as pre-diabetic. — Matthew Walker
The frog wanted to be an ox and swelled up until he burst — Greek Proverbs
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure. — Bertrand Russell
It’s unrealistic not to be able to indulge. — Hannah Bronfman
Knowledge, like food, must be taken within limits. You must know only as much as you need, and not more. — R.K. Narayan
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
When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity. — C. L. R. James
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? — Princess Diana
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More Moderate Life Quotes
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. — Oliver Goldsmith
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
Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately. Be gentle so that you may never oppose justice. Be honorable so that you may never voluntarily bring disgrace upon anyone. Be chaste so that you may avoid all the foulness of lust like the pangs of death. — Stephen I of Hungary
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way. — Lao Tzu
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. — Truman Capote
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health. — General Robert E. Lee
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. — Abraham Cowley
My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life. — Sayings
Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you. — Isocrates
A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on. — P. D. James
Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards. — Seal
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
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
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric. — Brian Sutton-Smith
I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families. — Michelle Obama
Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome. — Herbert M. Shelton
There seemed to be nothing in Mao that might be called religious feeling; his judgments were reached, I believe, on the basis of reason and necessity. Because of this I think he has probably on the whole been a moderating influence in the Communist movement where life and death are concerned. — Edgar Snow
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness. — David Hume
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
See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking — Robert Burns
One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply? — Diane Ackerman
Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm. — Jean Paul
The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share. — Mary Wortley Montagu
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. — Benjamin Disraeli
Illiberal left ideology has its greatest strength on campuses because campuses are one of the few places in American life where a certain kind of far-left politics can actually impose hegemony on other ideas and really control the discourse in a way it can't in most places in American life where even moderate liberals are more of a minority. — Jonathan Chait
A groundbreaking, fast-paced, action-oriented new training program for dealing with mild to moderate anxiety and depression. Self-Coaching is a dramatic and fresh departure from traditional therapeutic approaches and a motivational training program for reclaiming life by breaking the habits that feed these problems. — Harold H. Bloomfield
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. — Matthew Arnold
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
Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death. — Milan Kundera
When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef for dinner, it's probably going to be a 3-4 ounce portion with heaps and heaps of vegetables. — Michael Symon
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
I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters. — Mia Love
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude. — Joe Klein
Everything in moderation, and there's a perfect balance in this life if we can find it. — Ryan Robbins
It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain. — Robert McCracken
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. — William Hazlitt
Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm. — Jean Paul
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life. — Pope John Paul II
Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused. — William Ellery Channing
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. — Jean Paul
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation. — Donald Trump
I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life. — Frankie Avalon
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