Balance Quotes - Page 7

• Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Men

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Country, Movement, Today

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• In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Art, Reality

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• A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

  Andrew Shue

  Loss, Winning, Important

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• Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.

  Hillary Clinton

  Different, Roles, Mixtures

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• Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

  William Vickrey

  Achieve, Produce, Attempting

  William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

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• No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Matter, Way

  Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

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• Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Comeback, Insult, Daily Life

  Raoul Vaneigem, Donald Nicholson-Smith (2012). “The Revolution of Everyday Life”, p.15, PM Press

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  Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Men, Wheels

  Horace Mann (1872). “Annual Reports on Education”, p.669

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• The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

  Irving Babbitt

  Sympathy, Humanist, Selection

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We’re each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We’ve got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there is a lot of grey to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

  Libba Bray

  Art, Pain, Regret

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Technology, Race

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• There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them

  Marc Andreessen

  Trying, Demand, Matter

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• Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!

  Kiana Tom

  Successful, Careers, Keys

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• The answer is, of course, to simplify, to prioritize, and in some cases, to use a well-known phrase, "Just say no!" But actually doing it may prove to be one of the real challenges in our complicated, overheated lives.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Real, Challenges, Phrases

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• When earth life is over and things appear in their true perspective, we shall more clearly see and realize what the Lord and his prophets have repeatedly told us, that the fruits of the gospel are the only objectives worthy of life's full efforts. Their possessor obtains true wealth - wealth in the Lord's view of values. We need constantly to deepen our understandings and sharpen our realization of what the fruits of the gospel are. The Lord has defined them as . . . peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come.

  Marion G. Romney

  Views, Earth Life, Perspective

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• If we are not serving Jesus, and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of the world will draw us instead to them! Moreover, the things of the world need not be sinister in order to be diverting and consuming.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Heart, Order

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• The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Command Not, Soul

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions

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• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience.

  Walter Russell

  Happiness, Men, Omnipotence

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• Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left, the right, or round about. But looking to other people on the same level cannot satisfy spiritual shortages. When the immortal spirit is starved, hunger persists for something more filling. Even when material success comes, there is a hollow ache - if living well falls short of living worthily. Inner peace cannot be found in affluence accompanied by spiritual privation.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Fall, People

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• Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

  Margaret Atwood

  Heaven, Hell, Said

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Nov 21, 2016

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• We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Needs, Errands

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

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• Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

  Rumi

  Change, Success, Birds Wings

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Your Grief....”

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• To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Children, Age, Green

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1915). “"Virginibus puerisque," and othe other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

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