Quotes about Balance
You can never make a ship go steady by propping it outside; you know there must be ballast within the ship to make it go steady. So there is nothing outside us that can keep our hearts in a steady, constant way, but grace within the soul.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
As we become soft and lazy in our bodies, we tend to become soft and lazy spiritually.
- Jerry Bridges
A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.
- John F. Kennedy
The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.
- Simon Sinek
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
- Wendell Berry
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
- Coco Chanel
The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishable.
- Simon Sinek
If your work is stressful, it's not your work.
- Marty Rubin
Remember your created limits. So much of workaholism is a defiance of the physical limitations that God our creator has imposed upon us.
- Tim Challies