Quotes About Balance

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.

The Ego is an exquisite instrument. Enjoy it, use it--just don't get lost in it.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.

When you coordinate your mind and body, you have unlimited access to the wisdom of the universe.

The middle path is the way to wisdom

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.

India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.

We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.