Quotes about Balance
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
- John Wesley
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
- John Milton
If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one.
- Thomas a Kempis
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.
- Thomas Merton
The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.
- Lauren Kate
What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends.
- AW Tozer
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
- CS Lewis
... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.
- Charles Dickens
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
- Aristotle
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
- St. Augustine
The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
- Dallas Willard
To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.
- Confucius