Quotes About Moderation

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.

If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people

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.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

The middle path is the way to wisdom

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

If you own a rug you own too much.

Moderation in all things.

Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"

A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.

The wise man sayth, store is no sore.

Auspiciousness comes only through balance.

Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

It is profitable wisdom to know when we have done enough: Much time and pains are spared in not flattering ourselves against probabilities.