Quotes About Moderation

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.

Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit.

O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs

Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

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.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

He needs both patience and speed.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Few situations - no matter how greatly they appear to demand it - can be bettered by us going beserk.

It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous.

If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.