These balance quotes will inspire you. Balance, a state of equilibrium or equipoise; equal distribution of weight, amount. A balance in life is important when it comes to emotion, intelligence and practicality.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging balance quotes, balance sayings, and balance proverbs.
Best Balance Quotes
- “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.” ~ Confucius
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “Life is a balance between rest and movement.” ~ Rajneesh , Balance quotes in life
- “The truth is balance. However, the opposite of truth, which is unbalanced, may not be a lie.” ~ Susan Sontag
- “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” ~ Thomas Merton
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“Next to love, balance is the most important thing.” ~ John Wooden
- “Pain creates movement, and movement controls balance. If the opponent does not feel any pain you may be forced to break bones.” ~ Ed Martin
- “There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.” ~ Frank Herbert
- “The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.” ~ Euripides
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“Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.” ~ Thomas Kinkade
- “What I dream of is an art of balance.” ~ Henri Matisse
- “Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.” ~ Rumi
- “Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.” ~ Helen Keller
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“It’s all in how you arrange the thing… the careful balance of the design is the motion.” ~ Andrew Wyeth
- “The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.” ~ Anais Nin
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“Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.” ~ Lord Chesterfield
- “Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the ‘now’ one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they’re all constructs of your mind.” ~ Tom Bergeron
- “We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.” ~ Ellen Goodman
- “Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.” ~ Thomas Kinkade
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“The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.” ~ Michael Bloomberg
- “I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.” ~ Maxwell Maltz
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“A warrior balances solitude and dependence.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” ~ Robert Fulghum , Work balance quotes
- “You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” ~ Charles Buxton
- “Find your balance and stand with it. Find your song and sing it out. Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance. Find the questions that only you know how to ask and The answers that you are content to not know.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
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“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Whole life have balance. Everything be better. Understand?” ~ Pat Morita
- “Work, love, and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.” ~ Orison Swett Marden
- “I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.” ~ Jimmy Carter
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“We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.” ~ Thomas Friedman
- “If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead, make your work more pleasurable.” ~ Donald Trump
- “The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” ~ Barbara De Angelis
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“So I’ve broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.” ~ Kenneth H. Cooper
- “I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.” ~ Chris Patten
- “One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.” ~ Clare Short
- “Man always travels along precipices… His truest obligation is to keep his balance.” ~ Pope John Paul II
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“I want my life to affect the balance to the positive.” ~ Mira Sorvino
- “To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.” ~ Confucius
- “The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.” ~ Cliff Stearns
- “Balance happens when I invite it to happen with my intentional actions and my guided perspective.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
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“I’ve learned that you can’t have everything and do everything at the same time.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.” ~ Arthur Keith
- “To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.” ~ Jane Rule
- “Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.” ~ Margaret Atwood
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“Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one’s balance and keep afloat.” ~ Eric Hoffer
- “Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy. We pursue pleasure or entertainment, or become very involved in associations or civic matters. Of course, people need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute, but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high. The substitutions we fashion to take the place of God in our lives truly hold no water. To the measure we thus refuse the “living water,” we miss the joy we could have.” ~ Marion D. Hanks
- “What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.” ~ Henri Matisse
- “When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.” ~ James A. Baldwin
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“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.” ~ Davy Crockett
- “You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.” ~ Nigella Lawson
- “Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions – of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.” ~ James Mark Baldwin
- “Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.” ~ John Ralston Saul
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“Jimmy says he’ll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to – to balance the family ticket.” ~ Lillian Gordy Carter
- “In Africa, people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.” ~ Beryl Markham
- “The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.” ~ Herbert Read
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“Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn’t seem to be real at all.” ~ E. P. Thompson
- “My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.” ~ Jane Rule
