Quotes About Balance

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.

Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.

Use your power gently.

There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.

When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.

Power is neither good nor evil.

She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?

Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe.