Quotes About Balance

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by… What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Always keep left for a safe ride, because passionate bikers will be always right.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Abwechslung ist des Lebens Reiz, eine Wahrheit, die freilich jede glückliche Ehe zu widerlegen scheint.

Erst Kunst und dann Nusseis, das ist die richtige Reihenfolge.

Is the need to love greater than the need to hate?

if you cannot hate you cannot love. If you cannot bite you can not kiss. If you cannot curse you cannot bless. Who cannot be a good hater will be a poor lover.

Like a double-edge sword, success cuts two ways.

Chasing perfection is like chasing the fountain of youth—it's a fool's mission. Immediately divorce your self-esteem from perfectionism.

And we even recognise the apparent paradox that some limitations to our freedoms have the consequence of making us freer overall.

Like all other virtues, patriotism when carried to excess becomes a vice; but that does not mean that patriotism is incompatible with respect for others.

We must both recognise the limitations imposed upon us by our natures and at the same time not give up striving to control ourselves. If we fail to do either, we shall succumb to ideological or instinctual beastliness—or (the curious achievement of our own age) to both.

The choice for Gillray, as for all persons of good sense, was never between perfection and hell on earth, but always between better and worse.

The soul has many motions, body one.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them…. If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

A man must first care for his own household before he can be of use to the state. But no matter how well he cares for his household, he is not a good citizen unless he also takes thought of the state. In the same way, a great nation must think of its own internal affairs; and yet it cannot substantiate its claim to be a great nation unless it also thinks of its position in the world at large.

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future.

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.