Balance Quotes

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

~ John Frusciante

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

~ Myles Munroe

Anyone who's promoting the exact diet that they were in previous years probably isn't keeping up with the latest science, though in general, the balance of evidence has remained remarkably consistent - centering one's diet around whole plant foods.

~ Michael Greger

For my diet, I choose mostly organic. But in general, I am a big believer in trying to strike a balance with everything.

~ Liya Kebede

One of the reasons this election is so important is because the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. We need to overturn that terrible Supreme Court decision, Citizens United, and then reform our whole campaign finance system.

~ Hillary Clinton

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

~ Clayton M. Christensen

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

~ Susan Sontag

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things.

~ Shaun White

The body needs its rest, and sleep is extremely important in any health regimen. There should be three main things: eating, exercise and sleep. All three together in the right balance make for a truly healthy lifestyle.

~ Rohit Shetty

Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.

~ Brian Skerry

Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.

~ Sally Schneider

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.

~ Andrew J. Bernstein

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

~ Irving Babbitt

I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.

~ Venus Williams

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

~ Andrew Wyeth

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

~ Venus Williams

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

~ Donna Karan

I don't trust anyone... It's something that I have to live with, and I have to find the balance of who I want in my life and who isn't good for me.

~ Selena Gómez

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

~ Daniel Craig

The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.

~ Stewart Udall

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

~ Jennifer Lopez

The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

~ Karolina Kurkova

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

~ Patti Smith

Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

~ David Frum

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

~ Donna Brazile

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

~ Eleanor Clift

It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

~ Samantha Harvey

When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.

~ Mac Miller

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

~ Martin Mcdonagh

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

~ John Naisbitt

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

~ Thomas Friedman

I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and convenient and all that. It's more about maintaining balance. Technology should always be a predicate of the true subject: our individual humanity, our examined lives.

~ Paul Harding

The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.

~ Al Franken

Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs.

~ Arthur Laffer

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

~ Alan Dershowitz

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

~ Ani Difranco

Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility... The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.

~ Howard Schultz

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

~ Richard Branson

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

~ Johann Georg Zimmermann