Quotes About Balance

The organized person ... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

What we love to do we find time to do.

There is time for everything.

Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.

Live in day-tight compartments.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.

Take the time to come home to yourself everyday.

Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Be Satisfied with a Good Day's Work There are hundreds of tasks we feel we must accomplish in the day, but if we do not take them one at a time ... we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

As my mother used to say: "Mimic a duck act calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like crazy underneath."

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

When a man's busy, leisure strikes him as a wonderful pleasure; and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy.