Moderation Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cheer, Drinking, Beer

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• Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.

  Betty Boothroyd

  Language, Characteristics, Temper

  1995 In The Independent, 9 Feb.

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• The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated... Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Courage, Fighting, Democracy

  "Journeying to democracy" by Benazir Bhutto, archive.boston.com. October 18, 2007.

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• Moderation is the basis of justice.

  George MacDonald

  Justice, Bases

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• A little of what you fancy does you good.

  Marie Lloyd

  Doe, Littles, Fancy

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• He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

  War, Essence, Violence

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• The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things... Reckless daring was held to be loyal courage; prudent delay was the excuse of a coward; moderation was the disguise of unmanly weakness; to know everything was to do nothing. Frantic energy was the true quality of man.

  Thucydides

  Wisdom, Men, Coward

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.199, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  George Mason

  Freedom, Blessing, Government

  Virginia Declaration of Rights (Article 15), June 12, 1776.

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• I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Men, Two Sides

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “The days of Armageddon, 1900-1914”

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• I eat what I want but in moderation.

  Shirley Eaton

  Want

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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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• 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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• Wisdom comes through suffering.
  Trouble, with its memories of pain,
  Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
  So men against their will
  Learn to practice moderation.
  Favours come to us from gods.

  Aeschylus

  Pain, Memories, Heart

  Aeschylus (2007). “The Oresteia”, p.13, RicherResourcesPublications

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• Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat.

  Danny Pino

  Mom, Machines, Dinner

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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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline and moderation. Explorations among the ruins of the remote past have carried curious men all over the face of the earth… Yet in truth, no science is more adventurous than archaeology, if adventure is thought of as a mixture of spirit and deed.

  C. W. Ceram

  Adventure, Past, Men

  "Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology".

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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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