Balance Quotes

Each proposal must be weighed in the light of a broader consideration: the need to maintain balance in and among national programs - balance between the private and the public economy, balance between cost and hoped for advantage - balance between the clearly necessary and the comfortably desirable; balance between our essential requirements as a nation and the duties imposed by the nation upon the individual; balance between action of the moment and the national welfare of the future.

Good judgment seeks balance and progress. Lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.

There is - in world affairs - a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

In his struggle for selfish gain, man has often needlessly tipped the scales so that Nature's balance has been destroyed, and the public welfare has usually been on the short-weighted side. Such public necessities, therefore, must not be destroyed because there is profit for someone in their destruction.

A forest is not solely so many thousand board feet of lumber to be logged when market conditions make it profitable. It is an integral part of our natural land covering, and the most potent factor in maintaining Nature's delicate balance in the organic and inorganic worlds.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

No President can be great, or even fit for office, if he attempts to accommodate to injustice to maintain his political balance.

He toes that line so well, where he's able to make something compelling and profound and smart that's also so on the verge of making people hate him.

It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

Moderation is the key so I work a certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Being abandoned by my mother gives me a sense of insecurity that I will never recover from. I have to try and recreate that balance by trying to create a sense of self-worth. And yes, being on stage is a part of that.

I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.