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Quotes about Balance

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, German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher & politician (1883 - 1955)

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
- Oprah Winfrey, US actress & television talk show host (1954 - )

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, Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC - 406 BC)

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
- Francis J. Braceland