Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. The last virtue I posted was tolerance. This week’s virtue is moderation. Moderation is the prevention of extreme actions or opinions.
Many people that tend to accomplish goals in life have definite qualities in common. Many successful people either consciously or unconsciously perform similarly. One key characteristic of successful people is self control. Self control leads to moderation. Moderation is one of the more significant virtues that many can expand in their lives. This quality can allow many to experience many benefits that can lead to a more fulfilling life. Developing moderation requires attaining enhanced and more efficient self-control, which can be achieved by replacing old behaviors with new and more useful habits. Moderation could be the solution that can create larger and more fantastic prospects in many parts of our lives.
10 Wisdom Wednesday Quotes: Moderation
- “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
- “Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation”—Saint Augustine
- “Even nectar is poison if taken to excess”— Hindu Proverb
- “Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice”—Thomas Paine
- “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.”― Plato
- “Moderation in all things, especially moderation.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is better to rise from life as from a banquet – neither thirsty nor drunken. —Aristotle
- “Enough is as good as a feast”— English Proverb
- “Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance” –Epicurus
- “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess”—Oscar Wilde
