Balance Quotes

"It is necessary to drink alcohol and pursue other fun human activities. The art (Karate) of someone who is too serious has no flavor."

- Choki Motobu

"You need balance. That’s why I like martial arts: it always tells you how to control your body, your mind, your heart."

- Jet Li

"Better learn balance. Balance is key. Balance good, karate good. Everything good. Balance bad, better pack up go home. Understand?"

- Mr. Miyagi, The Karate Kid

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

- John Ruskin

"Also unity is not absence of disagreement but a consensus to agree to work together."

- Ian Traill D.Min

"I think sometimes the best training is to rest."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

"My father taught me a good lesson: Don’t get too low when things go wrong. And don’t get too high when things are good."

- Robert Parish

"Too little confidence, and you’re unable to act. Too much confidence and you’re unable to hear."

- John Maeda

"[On whether she likes football] Um, I prefer rugby. There’s just more grown men throwing other grown men into the air like children. And blood. Which is nice."

- Barbara

"A palace made out of crystal seems mighty fragile to me."

- Ted Lasso

"Life is like walking, you take one step at a time."

- Taylor Swift

"I work hard. But I play hard, too."

- Pitbull

"Play by the rules, but be ferocious."

- Phil Knight

"It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone."

- Reba McEntire

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

"Sometimes you need to tether your boats to stop them from following your dreams."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits."

- Bernard Moitessier

"A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart."

- Curtis C. Thomas

"Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale."

- Matthew Green

"Maybe you’re getting into the rhythm of sailing life,” says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. “You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won’t go your way."

- Melissa C. Walker

"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned — this is the sum of good government."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."

- James Madison

"Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness."

- James Wilson

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite."

- James Madison

"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.’ To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition."

- Thomas Jefferson

"[T]he general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any."

- James Madison

"It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it."

- James Madison

"Right. I’ve got to go and see a man about a horse. TED: Oh. I didn’t know girls said that when they gotta pee. REBECCA: No, Ted, I’m buying a horse."

"Live simply. Love abundantly."