Quotes About Moderation

Work and rest are one entity.

The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.

Take everything in moderation, including moderation.

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends. But how many people have verified that physically possible?

Recuerda que la codicia incluye la codicia de no ser codicioso.

Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.

Si quieres alimentar tu estupidez, intenta un poco de avaricia.

Restraint. The original purpose of cultivating restraint is so that eventually one will not need to have restraint.

Don't tell everyone everything. Sometimes it's better to simply keep your mouth shut.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

He who seeks only coarse food to eat, water to drink, and bent arm for pillow, will without looking for it find happiness to boot. Any thought of accepting wealth and rank by means that I know to be wrong is as remote from me as the clouds that float above.

To go too far is as bad as not to go far enough.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.

I'll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don't really do the Hollywood party thing. I'd rather watch sports or play videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Happiness comes in small peaces. Stop looking for it, before you'll get lost. Don't expect too much, or you'll make room for disappointment. Take life as it is and you'll enjoy it!

It is true that William Blake said that "The Road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom," but they didn't have angel dust back then.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.