balance quotes

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

An index is a great leveller.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.