Top 299 Balanced Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Balanced Quotes from famous people such as Pema Chodron, Thomas Sowell, John Fleming, J. B. Pritzker, Saul Bellow, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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The Buddha taught that we’re not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.
Pema Chodron
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
Thomas Sowell
I’ve heard enough of Democrats claiming a balanced approach.
John Fleming
When you’re governor, you’ve got to step up to the plate; you’ve got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That’s the requirement. And then you’ve got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
J. B. Pritzker
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow
I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget.
Rob Portman
All too often, the conversation about appropriate and balanced environmental stewardship gets caught up in partisan politics. Yet, this conversation is key to the preservation of our great country for generations to come, as important as ensuring we have fiscally responsible policies to secure our future.
Chris Gibson
Balanced is probably what I am, although that’s just a polite way to say that you don’t do anything very well.
Steve Yzerman
If I have a big shoot and I’m gunning to get into shape I’ll really be careful and consistent with my food but when I have a period off, I’ll be more relaxed and balanced in my life.
Chloe Madeley
My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
Rachel Zoe
I’m eating a lot of organic proteins and vegetables! Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is my No. 1 priority because I’m nursing my daughter.
Lily Aldridge
Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a ‘trading state,’ the model for export-led growth. It is not clear that the old export model of growth will be sustainable in a more ‘balanced’ global economy that does not rely so heavily on the U.S. consumer.
Robert Zoellick
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum
You have a lot of people on the run and really don’t have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.
Bo Jackson
But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.
Ron D. Burton
At Sunderland I balanced the books and managed them to this position of 10th and 13th. My record stacks up.
Steve Bruce
I eat all day long, I have a very varied and balanced and healthy diet, but it’s very structured and disciplined.
Chloe Madeley
Eating well is really important to me. That means having balanced meals, never missing a meal, never skipping a meal, having a balanced diet, and never doing anything extreme.
Lizzie Armitstead
The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society – a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
Nancy Pearcey
Focus on being balanced – success is balance.
Laila Ali
I am blessed with an active metabolism, which allows me to eat to my heart’s content. I prefer Indian food because it’s a balanced diet.
Shriya Saran
I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.
Al-Waleed bin Talal
The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a strong, balanced presence here.
Alexei Mordashov
Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.
Howard Dean
Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced diet – what more do you need? Nobody got fat.
Frank McCourt
In my own mind, we are a much happier and much more functional family and a much more well balanced group of individual s both off and on the stage – in the current incarnation.
James Young
We’ve not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can’t trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I’m much more conservative with money than George Bush is.
Howard Dean
I believe very firmly that we can get to balanced budgets without raising taxes and without cutting transfers to the provinces or to individuals.
Andrew Scheer
So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line.
James H. Douglas, Jr.
If we can’t have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we’ve got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.
Jeff Flake
Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.
Max Baucus
I maintain my inner beauty by trying to lead a balanced

I maintain my inner beauty by trying to lead a balanced life in general. I try to eat healthy foods, but… that doesn’t mean I won’t treat myself now and then! I work out almost every day, which gives me more energy and helps me feel stronger. I also try to be a genuinely good person to the people around me.
Erica Durance
Our interests lie in attracting added value and talent to France as a result of Brexit, but also in having a balanced relationship with Great Britain. We must not sacrifice the short term for our bilateral relationship.
Emmanuel Macron
When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
Christy Turlington
I don’t like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I’m more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.
John Caudwell
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar
Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life’s further development.
Lewis Mumford
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
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
Tom Robbins
Dad was certainly a free spirit and had his own ways. He was very proud of my golf achievements but more proud of the person I’ve turned into. He brought me up to lead a very balanced life.
Luke Donald
Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until we have reached a balanced budget by 2017.
Francois Hollande
Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.
Brit Hume
I’ve been slashed, speared, elbowed, board-checked, butt-ended, and hit on the head as much as anyone. I just like to keep the ledger balanced.
Ted Lindsay
Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.
Russell M. Nelson
I give balanced, constructive views and what happens is that bits and pieces of what I say are used against me.
John Barnes
It’s all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life’s goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose – family, career – to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.
Abigail Spencer
In our family health, it’s about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.
Victoria Osteen
I’m trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there’s all that baggage: What’s beautiful about humans is what’s balanced by what’s kind of ugly and petty and depressing.
Lynn Coady
Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
John Barrasso
I spend a part of the year in New York when based in L.A. and vice versa. It’s the only way I feel balanced. Outside of theater and my community of friends out there, my family is still in N.Y., so I have a lot of reasons to spend time out there as well. I guess I’m bi-coastal.
Hale Appleman
Running – it keeps me balanced, energetic, and primed for pasta intake.
Claire Saffitz
On the RFactor model that comes with the ‘Pro-Sim,’ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.
Lando Norris
I live a very balanced life. I am very good at delegating responsibilities.
Cynthia Carroll
I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it’s doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.
Suzanne Somers
If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society – take control of our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools, including our teachers. The only thing keeping black people from doing it is this idiotic idea about integration, about being racially balanced.
James Meredith