Quotes About Balance

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

What is power without control?

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.

Every single choice we make is either going to enhance the spirit or drain it. Every day, we're either giving ourselves power or taking it away.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

The great mind knows the power of gentleness.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax