Quotes about Balance

I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a president, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

All perfection hath some imperfection joined to it in this life, and all our power of sight is not without some darkness.

It is better for you to live privately and take care of yourself than it is to neglect your soul even though you could work wonders in the world.

You were born to work, so why do you look for rest?