These moderation quotes will inspire you. Moderation, the quality of being moderate; restraint; avoidance of extremes or excesses; temperance or the avoidance of excess or extremes, especially in one’s behavior or political opinions.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging moderation quotes, moderation sayings, and moderation proverbs.
Best Moderation Quotes
- “Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.” ~ Epicurus
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“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.” ~ Aristotle
- “Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a ‘sound mind in a sound body’.” ~ Jostein Gaarder
- “If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.” ~ Epictetus
- “Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.” ~ Edna Ferber
- “No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.” ~ Dave Barry
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“Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.” ~ Democritus
- “To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.” ~ Confucius
- “Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” ~ George Harrison
- “It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.” ~ Seneca the Elder
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“In everything the middle road is best.” ~ Plautus
- “He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.” ~ Horace
- “All things in moderation, including moderation.” ~ Socrates
- “Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.” ~ Joseph Joubert
- “Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.” ~ Klemens von Metternich
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“I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.” ~ Mark Twain
- “In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
[Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu;
Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]” ~ Plautus - “Keep a mid course between two extremes.” ~ Ovid
- “If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.” ~ Jack Kerouac
- “Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.” ~ Plato
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“Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.” ~ Saint Augustine
- “Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.” ~ Julia Child
- “A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.” ~ Moliere
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“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.” ~ Sigmund Freud
- “He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.” ~ Alexander Pope
- “Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen – but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.” ~ William Lloyd Garrison
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“There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundless and the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.” ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
- “I’m a believer in moderation in all things, including moderation.” ~ Robert Genn
- “There’s such a thing as too much point on a pencil.” ~ H. Allen Smith
- “There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.” ~ Paul Gauguin
- “Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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“I stand astonished at my own moderation” ~ Robert Clive
- “I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that’s really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn’t overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.” ~ Giada De Laurentiis
- “My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man’s self, and often troublesome to others.” ~ Edmund Burke
- “To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.” ~ Blaise Pascal
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“That, however, is – mediocrity, though it be called moderation.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,–as if the short spring days were an eternity.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; … he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
Your art must be to moderate their haste.” ~ Ovid - “Take this at least, this last advice, my son:
Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on:
The coursers of themselves will run too fast,
Your art must be to moderate their haste.” ~ Ovid -
“The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.” ~ Owen Feltham
- “America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.” ~ Lord Byron
- “The Great Chief also honours modesy.” ~ David Daniels
- “Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
[Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]” ~ Horace - “There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.” ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
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“Moderation in all things.” ~ Terence
- “Everything in moderation.” ~ Giada De Laurentiis
- “There’s nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.” ~ John Ciardi
- “The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.” ~ John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
- “That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this — that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.” ~ Seneca the Younger
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“When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.” ~ Alexander Hamilton
- “Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.” ~ Frances E. Willard
- “Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” ~ Barry Goldwater
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“Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.” ~ Francois Fenelon
- “To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
