Balance Quotes

“If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.”

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

“Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others.”

“To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.”

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

“I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.”

“You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.”

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

“The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.”

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”

“One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong”

“What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?”

“I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.”

“We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.”

“The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm.”

“Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.”

“With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.”

“Self-confidence may be mistaken for egotism if it is not accompanied by humility of the heart.”

“I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.”

“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”

“The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.”

“If you learn to budget your time correctly, you will have time for all your needs.”

“The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.”

“The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.”

“You never gain something but that you lose something.”