(317 quotes found)
“Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs”
William Howard Stein
“Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right..”
Tallulah Bankhead
“A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success”
Otto von Bismarck
“Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.”
Mark Twain
“Whatever you do, do it in moderation”
Proverb
“Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature”
Lucan
“Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.”
Jean Paul Richter
“Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.”
Klemens Von Metternich
“Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.”
Frances E. Willard
