Lao Tzu Quotes

From time to time I might push a little bit too hard and I have got to be a bit more careful.

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

Do not prove things too much.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

You can't ever get too high or too low.

Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

There is moderation even in excess.

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.

It's a wise thing to hold back.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

I would rather stop too soon than too late.

I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is not to try too hard.

Everything in moderation - that's what I live by.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.