Balance Quotes - Page 27

• At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance.

  Hill Harper

  Wall, Sleep, Night

  "Hill Harper Defines True Wealth". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2011.

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• The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom, between voluntary subordination and conscientious leadership, between pride in oneself and consideration for others, between rigor and compassion. Unless a balance is kept between these qualities, the Prussian spirit is in danger of degenerating into soulless routine and narrow-minded dogmatism.

  Henning von Tresckow

  Real, Mean, Pride

  "Withstanding Hitler" by Michael Balfour, (p. 130), 1988.

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• Every good thing you do changes the balance in the universe.

  Karen Kijewski

  Goodness, Good Things, Very Good

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• I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.

  Marilyn Wallace

  Girl, Games, Unwilling

  Marilyn Wallace (1992). “So Shall You Reap”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.

  Sheila Ostrander

  Hospitality, Form, Delicate

  Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette for today”

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• A scale is only in balance for a brief second. Inevitably the pendulum swings. It's impossible to maintain.

  Ivanka Trump

  Swings, Impossible, Pendulums

  "Ivanka Trump Describes What It's Really Like To Be A Woman Who Works". Interview with Jenna Goudreau, www.businessinsider.com. January 26, 2015.

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• It is in Zen practice that you gain power, balance and wisdom. The battles that you fight are within your own mind. That is where the real victories and defeats are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Fighting, Buddhism

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• We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we’ll ever have …the earth and nature.

  Dave Davies

  Teacher, Waiting, Needs

  "Dave Davies Interview: ‘Kinks’ guitar legend releases brilliant new music!". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockmusicwriter.com. June 26, 2013.

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• To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What Im writing is real.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Real, Mistake, Writing

  "Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent - and also ditzy and klutzy'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2012.

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• Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, Rich, Economic

  "George Osborne unveils employee 'shares for rights' scheme" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2012.

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• If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Evil, Inflation

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.73, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Love alone makes heavy burdens light and bears in equal balance things pleasing and displeasing. Love bears a heavy burden and does not feel it, and love makes bitter things tasteful and sweet.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sweet, Love Is, Light

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• For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have elected office seekers who would not balance it. The public cares about deficits, but doesn't care much.

  Herbert Stein

  Believe, Years, Office

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• Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.

  Kobe Bryant

  Art, Leader, Trying

  "Kobe Bryant Q&A: Future, fashion, legacy and Lamar Odom". Interview with Sam Amick, www.usatoday.com. February 26, 2015.

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• The estate taxes, on balance, are good. They get people to give money to charity, and they prevent these family dynasties which keep other people from having opportunities. It may be good for a family, but for society it's probably not good. And I've always been in favor of having an estate tax.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  "Global Public Square" with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right balance between obligations to my family and my need to be involved in social movements.

  Howard Zinn

  Regret, Political, Needs

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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• We forget that we create the situations, then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for “we” are the only thinkers in our mind. We create our experiences, our reality, and everyone in it. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our mind, we will find it in our lives.

  Louise Hay

  Frustration, Reality, Giving

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• Men and women balance each other out, and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Men, Appreciate, Stood Up

  "Beyonce opens up on feminism, fame and marriage" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2014.

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• It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

  Brené Brown

  Struggle, Compassion, Practice

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Evidently stockholders have forgotten more than to look at balance sheets. They have forgotten also that they are owners of a business and not merely owners of a quotation on the stock ticker. It is time, and high time, that the millions of American shareholders turned their eyes from the daily market reports long enough to give some attention to the enterprises themselves of which they are the proprietors, and which exist for their benefit and at their pleasure.

  Benjamin Graham

  Eye, Long, Giving

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• Food is all about balance; it is all about taste.

  Michael Mina

  Taste

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• Real wisdom is recognizing and accepting that every experience is impermanent. With this insight you will not be overwhelmed by ups and downs. And when you are able to maintain an inner balance, you can choose to act in ways that will create happiness for you and for others. Living each moment happily with an equanimous mind, you will surely progress toward the ultimate goal of liberation from all suffering.

  S. N. Goenka

  Real, Goal, Mind

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• Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Novelists, Thumbs, Morality

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8926, Delphi Classics

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• When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.

  Ariel Gore

  Skills, Challenges, Pulse

  Ariel Gore (2010). “Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness”, p.123, Macmillan

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• When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess its like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

  Tom Freston

  Girlfriend, Moving, Loss

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