Quotes about Balance

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.

The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.

When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.

I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.