Balance Quotes - Page 10

• To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Wise, Fall

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

  Charlie Hunnam

  Careers, Interesting, Trying

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• We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

  Davy Crockett

  Sympathy, Respect, Injustice

  "The Life of Colonel David Crockett". Book by Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1884.

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• Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Ideas, Feelings, Compromise

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of psychology”

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• Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

  John Ralston Saul

  Keys, House, Secret

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

  Jane Rule

  Success, Commitment, Lasts

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• In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.

  Beryl Markham

  People, Giving, One Day

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

  Susan Sontag

  Truth, Lying, Opposites

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• Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cycling

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.372, The Floating Press

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• I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nice, President, Looks

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

  Thomas Friedman

  Technology, Feet, Lawyer

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• If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Donald J. Trump, Meredith McIver (2004). “Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life”, p.92, Random House

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• So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Fitness, Moderation, Concepts

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• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Self Esteem, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

  Arthur Keith

  Liberty, Problem, Ancient

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

  Chris Patten

  Believe, Responsibility, Hands

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• I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

  Mira Sorvino

  Want, Effects

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• Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Women, Eye

  "Encouraging Quotes from Michelle Obama", www.beliefnet.com.

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• Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Advice, Needs, Welcome

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• The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Insanity, Psychological, Thousand

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• There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Spiritual, Compassion

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• Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

  Amy Bloom

  Marriage, Love You, Long

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• Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, Men, Hands

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.60, Best Books on

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• I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Family, Beautiful

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Sadness

  Khalil Gibran, “Joy And Sorrow Chapter VIII”

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