Quotes About Balance

Imagine if we applied as much grace to others as we give ourselves & as much law to ourselves as we apply to others.

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.

Those who row the boat don't have time to rock it while those who rock it don't have time to row it.

Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

True leaders apply law and grace, for those who only apply only law have little influence and those who apply only grace do not influence properly.

Don't sweat the small stuff; however, on the key stuff, sweat everything.

If life is like a canoe in a raging river then wisdom is the paddle to successfully navigate.

Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.

Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God.

the modern world has scrambled things so badly that today we worship our work, we work at our play, and we play at our worship.

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when.

Biography can overwhelm philosophy in the best of us.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

Modern life assaults us with an infinite range of things we could do, we would love to do, or some people tell us we should do. But we are not God and we are neither infinite nor eternal. We are quite simply finite. We have only so many years, so much energy, so many gray cells, and so many bank notes in our wallets. 'Life is too short to...' eventually shortens to 'life is too short.

Every family," he jested, "has a fool—just to keep it in touch with reality.

Can't a man be satisfied without having to beat everybody at everything?

That one's a wife, he began, and she knows only two ways to live—either she's the husband's boss or else his toy.

But there are times when one man's sense of justice may tear apart the peaceful domestic lives of other people.