Quotes About Balance

Money and virtue must always be combined.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that I received from the electorate, I am committed to operating in the framework of moderation, which calls inter alia for a balance between realism and the pursuit of the ideals of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't see any virtue in the other side's point of view.

Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.

I have discovered the virtue of patience and I don't quite believe that taking a break for good reason can be a risk.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

The land of Beulah lies beyond the valley of the shadow of death. Many Christians spend all their days in a continual bustle, doing good. They are too busy to find either the valley or Beulah. Virtues they have, but are full of the life and attractions of nature, and unacquainted with the paths of mortification and death.

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

At some point, I had to make a decision: I could practice more and become a really great guitar player or I could work on writing better songs. There are only so many hours in the day, and I found writing songs more fulfilling than working on becoming this virtuoso guitar player.

Laziness can be virtuous in the right setting, I guess.

It's interesting to note that when something like a virus tries to poison us, the first thing our bodies do is heat up. We burn away the infection. Maybe that's what Earth is doing to us.