Quotes about Balance
Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right. Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong.
- Roy Bennett
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
- Roy Bennett
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
- Thomas a Kempis
Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
- Charles Kettering
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
- John F. Kennedy
Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.
- Thomas a Kempis
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
- Thomas Merton
Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
- Pierre Corneille
Confucius said the doctrine of the mean was the highest virtue, and rare among men. The Buddhists call it the middle way. Aristotle saw moderation as the essence of virtue. I say moderation in all things, even moderation.
- Jay Parini
Everything had been said. The pros and the cons. I would choose the living or the dead. Day or night.
- Elie Wiesel
Our sages teach us that two angels attach themselves to a man at birth and never leave him. One walks before and helps him climb mountains, the other follows in the shadows and pushes him toward his fall.
- Elie Wiesel
By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
- Elisabeth Elliot