Quotes about Balance
Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.
- Billy Graham
Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.
- Zig Ziglar
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.
- Elbert Hubbard
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.
- Herbert Hoover
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
- Elbert Hubbard
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
- Hippocrates
Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.
- Samuel Johnson
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
- William James
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.
- Samuel Johnson
Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.
- Confucius