Quotes About Balance

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air.

My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.

I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.

A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

What about this overcrowded land/How much more abuse from man can she stand?

Aikido is the Way and Principle of harmonizing Heaven, Earth and Man.

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!