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Quotes About Moderation

I have a simple mantra: eat right and work out; you'll never have a weight issue. I never starve or binge.
~ Malaika Arora Khan
I'm not a crazy granola person. I like to wear beautiful clothes, and I like having a glass of wine, but it doesn't mean I don't work out every day and drink green juices.
~ Phoebe Tonkin
4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.
~ Christopher Poole
I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish moderate religious leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury because I think we all agree that extreme fundamentalism is a threat, and we need all the allies we can muster against it.
~ Martin Rees
Whenever I over-indulge - usually by eating too much dessert - I see the results in my thighs. The backs of my thighs begin to lose their smoothness as the hints of cellulite threaten to turn them into 'cottage cheese.'
~ Denise Austin
I think I have a threshold for taking things too seriously.
~ Justin Simien
Be thrifty, but not covetous.
~ George Herbert
Pasta is my superfood! Balance and moderation are the basis for my diet, though, so I also make sure to incorporate plenty of protein, fruits, and veggies throughout the day.
~ Mikaela Shiffrin
I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.
~ Jennifer Yuh Nelson
You can't drink too many otherwise you can't see what you're throwing at.
~ Eric Bristow
I do text a lot. Sometimes, at night, my thumbs hurt because I've texted so much, so I definitely text too much.
~ Miranda Cosgrove
I'm, in general, an advocate of moderate ticket prices.
~ Jupp Heynckes
If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.
~ Roland Joffe
I make sure I keep everything tight, checking on my bills. Going to restaurants, I make sure if I have a coupon, I use it. I try to live like I'm a normal person.
~ Roy Hibbert
The challenge is to find a new way of working that complements our lives rather than compromises them, striking a balance between how we would like to live our lives and how we would like to work.
~ Sahar Hashemi
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
~ Saint Augustine
Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
~ Saint Augustine
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.
~ Saint Augustine
A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
~ Saint Jerome
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
~ Saint Jerome
If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.
~ Sakyong Mipham
The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Of course, we all go through our own experiences. If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Thus avarice, leagued with power, disturbed, violated, and wasted every thing, without moderation or restraint; disregarding alike reason and religion, and rushing headlong, as it were, to its own destruction. For whenever any arose among the nobility, who preferred true glory to unjust power, the state was immediately in a tumult, and civil discord spread with as much disturbance as attends a convulsion of the earth.
~ Sallust