Quotes About Moderation

There can be a downside to the achievement drive: some people become workaholics, completely focused on their work goals and neglecting to live a full life. You can see this in students who are "grinds," driven to get the highest grades at the sacrifice of everything else in their lives, just as you see it in those successful executives who work 18-hour days all through the week – and in anyone who has perfectionistic standards.

There are times when having too much to say can be as dumbfounding as having too little.

Happiness is a place between too much and too little.

Limit your "always" and your "nevers."

Balance is the key of life.

Balance is the key to everything. What we do, think, say, eat, feel, they all require awareness and through this awareness we can grow.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.

"In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has."

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

It's simple. Eat well, exercise and get lots of sleep but make sure you indulge occasionally. At my age , I think , what the hell , and eat a Krispy Kreme doughnut !

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.

You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.

Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Excess of everything is worst

Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.

but he had gained a perspective of thought in which every extreme was seen as a half-truth

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.

The distinctive feature of the unintelligent man is the hastiness and absoluteness of his opinions; the scientist is slow to believe, and never speaks without modification.