Balance is an important component of our lives. When we find ourselves stressed, anxious, unhappy, or worried, it’s often because something is off-balance in our life. Perhaps work is taking up too much of your time, leaving you feeling burnt out – in which case, you have to create more work-life balance. Or maybe you’ve spent your time focusing on things that don’t really matter, resulting in a sense of feeling off-balance.
Whatever the case may be, by taking the time to balance out the priorities in our life, including our mind, body, and spirit, we can often find peace of mind, relaxation, and a greater sense of meaning.
If you’re feeling a little off-balance, this collection of quotes will inspire you to focus on the things that matter to create the balance that you require.
“Live a life that is well balanced; don’t do things in excess.”
Daniel Smith
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
Albert Einstein
“Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.”
Zig Ziglar
“Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.”
Epicurus
“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
“There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.”
Jack Welch
“Balance is a feeling derived from being whole and complete; it’s a sense of harmony. It is essential to maintaining quality in life and work.”
Joshua Osenga
“Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.”
Nikola Tesla
“Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model.”
Confucius
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.”
Thomas Merton
“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
Victor Hugo
“Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.”
Melody Beattie
“Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.”
Orison Swett Marden
“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
Dolly Parton
“Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”
Gregory Peck
“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.”
Steven R. Covey
“Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls – family, health, friends, integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”
Gary W. Keller
“Love is the undisturbed balance that binds this universe together.”
Mahavatar Babaji
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.”
Steven Spielberg
“A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.”
Doreen Virtue
“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.”
Patti Smith
“The more often you decline invitations to spend time with friends or family because you are too busy with either work or other activities, the more you should realize that your life is not in balance.”
Byron Pulsifer
“Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.”
Aleister Crowley
“The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.”
Sogyal Rinpoche
“So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
“One of the major issues plaguing human potential in the corporate world today is work-life balance. The term itself diminishes our ability to make the case that work can be a richly rewarding part of a person’s life and should in many ways be personal.”
Matthew Kelly
“The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.”
Wallace D. Wattles
“We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.”
Carlos Castaneda
“Balancing on a rope requires skill, steady feet, a steady mind, and a sense of weight control. As you can see, the act of balancing consists of several things. Some of these things may be small but at the same time necessary to put the act together. A lot of people find it hard to balance work.”
Ginel Love
“If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.”
Deepak Chopra
“Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“Self-care is, fundamentally, about bringing balance back to a life that has grown imbalanced from too many commitments or responsibilities.”
Robyn L. Gobin
“Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs – Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; what’s pleasure without pain?”
Angelina Jolie
“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
“For a menu to come together, you have to have sweetness, saltiness, crunchiness… it’s all about balance.”
Dominique Crenn
“A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful center.”
Donna Goddard
“Examples of balance can be found everywhere, even in those places where you least expect them.”
Dr. Patrizia Collard
“Happiness isn’t real unless it is shared.”
Christopher McCandless
“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
“The balance of power is the scale of peace.”
Thomas Paine
“Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.”
Myles Munroe
“Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.”
Maxwell Maltz
“If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are.”
Gary Zukav
“Getting in balance is not so much about adopting new strategies to change your behaviors, as it is about realigning yourself in all of your thoughts so as to create a balance between what you desire and how you conduct your life on a daily basis.”
Wayne Dyer
“The problem is that technology has become an extra limb for some of us. It’s important to utilize this technology, but at the same time it’s important to know when to take a break from it.”
Alex Broches
“Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.”
Stuart Wilde
“Beauty is only skin deep. I think what’s really important is finding a balance of mind, body, and spirit.”
Jennifer Lopez
“Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.”
Deepak Chopra
“We need to introduce a little balance into your life. Part of this balance means not missing out on some of the marvels of life around you, the fun, some excitement, or other challenges in life.”
Catherine Pulsifer
“Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton
“Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world.”
Satish Kumar
“Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet.”
Francois Nars
“Too much of one thing can end up creating stress; this is something that no one needs in their life. But living a life in balance can provide harmony and peace.”
Catherine Pulsifer
“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
“When your blood sugar is off balance, you can experience irritability and a lack of motivation.”
Mike C. Adams
“Giving to others will not take away from what you have but will in fact add to your life.”
Catherine Pulsifer
“A good method of juggling different tasks is to always balance the short- and long-term tasks.”
Gretchen Pilar
“The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advances to his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.”
Joseph Pilates
“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.”
Frank Herbert
“Justice is balance in human affairs. Balance is wider than justice, since it includes justice and more than justice.”
Orlando Jay Smith
“You shouldn’t fear boundaries, but you should not be afraid of destroying them.”
Haruki Murakami
“Self-esteem is a matter of balance. Too much can tip over into haughtiness, arrogance, and the inability to admit when we have gone wrong.”
Alan Schmidt
“In all aspects of our lives balance is key. Doing one thing too much can cause upset like the old saying goes, everything in moderation is the secret!”
Catherine Pulsifer
“The separation of feminine and masculine has torn us into pieces. The balance of feminine and masculine will bring us back to peace.”
Reena Kumarasingham
“Your beliefs should knock the scale way off balance leaning to the side of love. If the other side is weighed down with worry, guilt, shame, anger or frustration, choose right now to change that!”
Debbie Dixon
“Don’t confuse symmetry with balance.”
Tom Robbins
“When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on someone definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.”
Bertrand Russell
“Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.”
Oswald Chambers
“Shabbat is a day of rest, of mental scrutiny and of balance. Without it the workdays are insipid.”
Hayim Nahman Bialik
“Pursuing your goal is in a sense, fired by internal motivation. Hence, you need a source of external motivation to keep things in balance.”
Ben Robinson
“A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.”
Li Ka-shing
“Working toward balance takes a lot of ingredients. We need courage, reflection, attention, action, and a push-and-pull relationship between effort and relaxation.”
Tara Stiles
“The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.”
Gordon B. Hinckley
“Some days you eat salads and go to the gym, some days you eat cupcakes and refuse to put on pants. It’s called balance.”
Anonymous
“You can do anything, but not everything.”
David Allen
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
Stephen Covey
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
Michael Altshuler
“The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it.”
Anonymous
“There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.”
Eckhart Tolle
“Life is a balance between what we can control and what we cannot. I am learning to live between effort and surrender.”
Danielle Orner
“You will never be truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.”
Heather Schuck
“Balance is not something you find; it’s something you create.”
Jana Kingsford
“Working smarter is learning to prioritize, plan, and focus our energies with meaningful intent.”
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
“Understand that building self-confidence is all about striking a balance in your life. The right amount of confidence can help a great deal in achieving what you want.”
Angel Graff
“Live a life that is well balanced; don’t do things in excess.”
Daniel Smith
“Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.”
Betsy Jacobson
“Achieve balance through the combined conscious states of the heart and mind.”
Steven Redhead
“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
“You have to balance your passions, not your time.”
Lisa Sugar
“Joy lifts us up into the heavens, while grief pulls us down into the earth, and in this way they both help us maintain our emotional balance.”
Jessica Moore
“There is no decision that we can make that doesn’t come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.”
Simon Sinek
“Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.”
Orlando Bloom
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”
Barbara De Angelis
“The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.”
Celine Dion
“Focus on being balanced – success is balance.”
Laila Ali
“A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.”
Doreen Virtue
“The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.”
Sogyal Rinpoche
Wrapping Up
Whatever your situation in life, balance is an important component of it. Are you looking for more balance in your life, or are you one of the lucky few who has got it all figured out? Whatever the case may be, the above list of balance quotes will surely add a new perspective to your outlook.
