Balance Quotes

“You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.”

“All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.”

“Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.”

“The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.”

“Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.”

“Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.”

“By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.”

“I like to do a lot of things to turn off the "football head." I think that's really important so you don't get burned out, so you can relax completely in your mind. Because it's not easy to be a footballer; it's a lot of pressure.”

“The point is that you can't be too greedy.”

“Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

“My faith helps me overcome negative emotions and find my equilibrium.”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”

“People think hard sparring will get you sharp. But anytime I've trained that way, I've actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. It's almost because my training has been too hard.”

“Virtue is a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.”

“Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.”