Quotes About Balance

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Of two evils choose the least.

One loss is good for the soul. Too many losses are not good for the coach.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

A busy fool is fitter to be shut up than a downright madman.

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.

More than enough is too much.

Nothing in excess.

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.