Quotes About Balance

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider's web.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Let's just say, he has too many pigeons on his antenna.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy.

One cannot both feast and become rich.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.

Sometimes when you have everything, you can't really tell what matters.

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

For some must watch, while some must sleep; thus runs the world away.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.