Top 91 Self Balance Quotes

#1. Yoga is about balance, both mind and body, as well as increasing self-awareness, with by-products of better strength and flexibility.

M.E. Dahkid

#2. To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism ... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. We can't control on how each day will fall, but we can control how we fall into each day. Learn to make adjustments to match the circumstances.

Anthony Liccione

#4. When you switch your focus from the "we" to the "me", the goal from "team" to "self", you upset the balance of the whole. Consequentially, that redistribution of effort impedes success.

Carlos Wallace

#5. Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Barbara De Angelis

#6. Education must have two foundations
morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Nicolas Chamfort

#7. Just as there are none good but God, and nothing good but goodness, so there are no loves but love its self, the very love; and that what I call the other unnatural loves, are not loves at all in their own right but become so only so far as they participate in the very love.

C.S. Lewis

#8. The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.

Mahershala Ali

#9. You will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.

H. Ross Perot

#10. Some guys don't have to work out as hard as other guys do, but if you balance all that together then your longevity is definitely going to be greater. So, I would tell my 20-year-old self not to over-train.

Andre Reed

#11. The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#12. Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.

Anais Nin

#13. You were not born to make only a living but to live life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph Blum

#15. On the surface, reality may appear the same each day, but in essence, we are new every moment of our lives. The potential for change and growth is unlimited if we allow ourselves to surrender to the flow.

Dorit Brauer

#16. Time is not a means to keep or prove your worth in the world, but a means to experience the richness of all that is.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#17. to judge darkness as bad or wrong is akin to judging whether up is better than down, or whether blue is better than red

Timothy Roderick

#18. Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.

Judith Kelman

#19. Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.

Wayne Muller

#20. Our fragile, perishable bodies are not who we are. We are the sum of fleeting moments that belong to us for eternity. It is our choice and responsibility to create moments of beauty and grace, instead of despair and suffering.

Dorit Brauer

#21. It is possible to stop the mental chatter, regain your emotional balance and live free of stress and anxiety when you create a new habit of daily energetic self-care using the four powerful tools in Nurturing Wellness through Radical Self-Care.

Janet Gallagher Nestor

#22. The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself.

Solange Nicole

#23. We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.

Bryant McGill

#24. The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.

Virginia Postrel

#25. I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to reach into that core of my being. It's a kind of self-analysis that requires a balance between the rational and the intuited.

Thornton Willis

#26. A measure of narcissism is healthy. But out of balance, what was once appropriate self-confidence becomes grandiose, pathological, and destructive.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#27. When you are positive; mind thinks, when you are negative; mind thinks,
For mind can never be in balance.
It is the Self, witnessing in awareness, Centered, which observes these two.

Gian Kumar

#28. While we are in recovery we need to be able to strike a balance between not allowing our ego to do all the talking and not letting our low self-esteem to only present what is wrong with us.

Noah Levine

#29. And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

Patrick Dempsey

#30. How do I structure my life to be at peace with who I am, & comfortable with what I'm doing & not doing?

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#31. I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

William J. Clinton

#32. Self-observation helps us to refocus within, to balance ourselves and to be in the present moment ...

Jacqueline Ripstein

#33. He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of himself seldom came into balance. She found him attractive in that way. Yet the perception saddened her: she herself wasn't too many things, but too few.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#34. The cult of self has become an addiction - feeding off the ego of self-glorification. The word cult encompasses many movements and ideas, but simply put, it describes a culture of alternative beliefs, fads, and trends, and tampers with just enough truth to knock many off balance.

Billy Graham

#35. 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

#36. Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don't find time to practice, one of the three is missing.

Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel

#37. Under chronic stress, your body is more apt to enter a state of dis-ease. Unable to achieve its natural balance, it can't function the way it should. The ripple effects can be profound. And yet Western medicine has trained us to focus on symptomsrather than root causes like stress. Page 71

Nick Ortner

#38. Don't waste time worrying about work/life balance, or looking for your best self, sham "secrets" or any other snake oil being pushed by sloppy hippies who have never built a business, let alone a bankroll, or you will wake up 20 years from now poor, pissed off and primed for a midlife crisis.

Ari Gold

#39. Take the time to slow down, relax, meditate, and contemplate the wonders within. You will discover an inner calm and balance that previously eluded you.

Joanne Madeline Moore

#40. I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family ... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration ... of work, family, self, community.

Padmasree Warrior

#41. Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

Imran Khan

#42. With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#43. Following your intuition will always lead you to the best experience for your growth right now.

Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

#44. If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

John H. Vandenberg

#45. Only the balance of the scale, bedded love in the shells, teaches us to find the inner self.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#46. You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you.

Fennel Hudson

#47. Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the balance of all things between the breathing out and breathing in.

Na'ama Yehuda

#48. In several short years, Obama has fundamentally shifted the balance away from the individual and toward government, and has altered the national psyche from self-reliance to ever-growing reliance on government.

Monica Crowley

#49. Lincoln's ability to retain his emotional balance in such difficult situations was rooted in actute self-awareness and an enormous capacity to dispel anxiety in constructive ways.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#50. We feel the most balance when we're not dividing ourselves on other people's scales.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#51. The higher self knows there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and accepts that both light and dark must exist to maintain the balance of the whole.

Heidi DuPree

#52. Citing both the Buddha and Aristotle, Sachs makes the case for a "middle path," a path of moderation and balance between work and non-work (what he calls, quaintly in this day and age, "leisure"), savings and consumption, self-interest and compassion, individualism and citizenship.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#53. The trick ... is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

Wendy Wasserstein

#54. I knew that, without killing the creative mood, I had to keep the balance between my emotional outburst and the merciless discipline of a super-personal control, thus submitting myself ti the self-imposed law of dance composition

Mary Wigman

#55. The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter's intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who is able to separate her identity from her daughter's, has the key to achieving the right balance.

Susan Shapiro Barash

#56. Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

Anthony De Jasay

#57. Balance is the key to a long and happy life.

Janet Gallagher Nestor

#58. The light is all around, but to find it, we need to look inside our hearts. We can go through life and search in all the wrong places. But one day we'll look within and we'll find the entire universe.

Dorit Brauer

#59. It's hard to decide matters of the heart, especially when Self-love is rooted in our decisions. You'll need to balance your needs with the people you love in order to avoid hurting others.

Auliq Ice

#60. Yoga reduced my stress and bodily tension. It allowed me to bring my body back into balance, to emerge from my fertility struggle with my sense of self esteem and self worth intact, and to forge a stronger bond with my husband.

Brenda Strong

#61. True life balance takes concentration, confidence, self-esteem, a positive mental attitude, and self-control. It's a challenge, for sure, but it's a challenge worth taking on.

Jay Rifenbary

#62. Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

Tara Brach

#63. No one is born a sprinter. We all learn to push ourselves up from the floor and then balance before taking that first, wobbly step. It is an individual choice where to go from there.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#64. Diets don't really work & can be destructive, but if you get healthy overall (mind, body, spirit) then your weight balances naturally.

Jay Woodman

#65. Balance in impossible; memories are better. (TILT-7 Solutions To Be A Guilt-free Working Mom)

Marci Fair

#66. Utilise the combined power of creative consciousness of the heart, mind and higher self to manifest, modify and manage your total reality. Create a state of Bliss where everything is in perfect balance.

Steven Redhead

#67. The key to a good life is to balance the good and evil rather than trying to get rid of all evils because if you get rid of all your evils, you would also lose all your desire and ability to do good. In other words, you become neutral like neutron and become useless for the self and the society.

Awdhesh Singh

#68. As most of us know, the proper attitude toward ourselves is called "good self-esteem." But self-esteem is
an art. An art of balance. A balance between thinking too little of ourselves, and thinking too much of
ourselves.
The name for thinking too much of ourselves is "egotism.

Richard N. Bolles

#69. There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order.

Kat Lahr

#70. I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.

Thomas Metzinger

#71. Life must be lived forward but only makes sense by looking backward. Only in retrospect do the pieces of the puzzle connect, revealing an intelligently orchestrated evolution. Our journey through life is in a way like walking blindfolded.

Dorit Brauer

#72. If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.

Deepak Chopra

#73. When a heart mends it doesn't let the same people in twice.

Nikki Rowe

#74. In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was.
Like a perfect state of balance.

Tim Relf

#75. I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.

Charlotte Eriksson

#76. Whenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#77. Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

Laozi

#78. Balance both sides of the equation to attain equilateral-balance your life

Ikechukwu Joseph

#79. Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'

David Blunkett

#80. Nature is self-renewing as it adjusts to maintain balance. Nature becomes even more vibrant as it yields to allow recycling. It is best to align with success and become nature with your health, wealth, and relationships.

Franklin Gillette

#81. Fun is essential to mastering the serious side of life. It provides the balance that keeps us sane

Peter Nicholls

#82. Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

T.H. White

#83. I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.

Roxane Gay

#84. I tried piano, acting, and a bunch of things. My family let me do what I wanted to do; they made sure I had balance in my life because I was self-driven. Listen to your kid, encourage them, and make it fun.

Summer Sanders

#85. You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

Deepak Chopra

#86. The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.

Robert Genn

#87. Not only does a regular intense exercise programme elevate spirits, it enables the Type O to maintain weight control, emotional balance and a strong self-image.

Peter J. D'Adamo

#88. I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

Ellen G. White

#89. If the moon faerie became like the sun faerie, there would be eternal day and if the sun faerie became like the moon faerie, it would be pitch dark. Therefore you balance each other out. Do you see?

Anja Owona Okoa

#90. We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government
a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.

Gerald R. Ford

#91. there isn't shame in having shadows - we all have them to varying degrees. it's simply a part of being human

Timothy Roderick

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