75 Balance Quotes On Life and Peace of Mind (2021)

The definition of what balance means to each of us is different, but there are some universal truths.

For instance: each of us needs a healthy work and life balance to be truly healthy and happy.

Others, like me, believe that your body, mind, and soul must be in balance to truly be at peace, to live a life of harmony.

Too often, most of us live a life that is far out of balance – putting the things that are not as important first or letting them tip the scales too far in one direction.

Here is a list of quotes from those who have learned the importance of balance in their lives, and hopefully it will inspire you to find balance in yours.

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Thought-Provoking Balance Quotes about life

1. “Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.” – Epicurus

2. “Balance. The Ultimate Goal.”- Ricky Lankford

3. “I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.” – Art Garfunkel

4. “Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.” – Peter Latham

5. “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 Fulgham

6. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton

7. “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

8. “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

9. “They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.” – William Shakespeare

10. “Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.”- Orison Swett Marden

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11. “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

12. “Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.”- Jessye Norman

13. “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

14. “We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.”- Paul Boese

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

16. “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

17. “What I dream of is an art of balance.”- Henri Matisse

18. “The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.” – Wallace D. Wattles

19. “Next to love, balance is the most important thing.” – John Wooden

20. “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

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21. “Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model.” – Confucius

22. “Anything that’s too much turns adverse. Shift your traits to their neutrality and they become your power.” – Alyaa Sadek

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23. “You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.” – Heather Schuck

24. “A balanced inner calmness radiates from a peaceful centre.” – Donna Goddard

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25. “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

26. “The critical part of a balance in life is choosing priorities. If you are trying to balance a family and a career, the choices are complex because both are important.” – Byron Pulsifer
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27. “A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your step as you walk the tightrope of life.” – William A Ward

28. “I’m not suggesting you deny or suppress your emotions, but just discover for yourself what it takes for you to handle your emotions and stay balanced.” – Wendy Hearn

29. “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

30. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton

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31. “Through substitute activities, therapy, and hard work, grieving individuals can work through their anger and progress to live more balanced lives.” – Valerie Orr, Picking Up the Pieces: Learning to Live Through Grief After the Loss of a Loved One

32. “As parents we often struggle with balancing our desire to make our children happy and setting boundaries.” – Ellen Trump, Frugal Kids: Teach Your Kids To Save, Invest and Spend Wisely

33. “It’s not about balance, it’s about designing a work-home-family life that makes you feel good. A life you don’t need a vacation from.” – Jacqueline Fisch, Unfussy Mom: simplifying your life

34. “While it is important to love others unselfishly, it is crucial to find a balance. When we compromise our needs and martyr ourselves to the point of depleting ourselves and neglecting our needs, we become out of balance.” – Jessica Minty, Codependency: Self Confidence

35. “In addition to helping me feel better, healthier and more balanced, psychotherapy brought some unforeseen extra perks I would have never expected.” – Andrew Carley, Know ThySelf

36. “It’s also important to give attention to your health and hygiene. Keep yourself healthy by exercising, eating a balanced diet, and sleeping right.” – Kathleen Rao, Self-Confidence

37. “If we are stressed out, we won’t be ‘joyful mothers of children.’ Balance is key.” – Katherine Leigh, 3 Weeks to an Organized Homeschool

38. “The workplace today is very demanding, and you really can’t have your life as a working mom the way it was before baby. So work-life balance for you should be about trade-offs at one time or the other.” – Grace Essen, Successful Working Mom

39. “A good method of juggling different tasks is to always balance the short and long term tasks.” – Gretchen Pilar, Overcoming Laziness

40. “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, Over The Rainbow

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Balance quotes to inspire and motivate you

41. “Moderate activity can return us to fitness and continuous training will bring all the forces back in balance.” – Lorena Katz, Productivity: How To Be Productive

42. “As time progresses, increase the amount of time spent for self-improvement, and less time on the mental junk food. Create a healthy balance, it’s no different than indulging in some cake here and there. Moderation, moderation, moderation!” – Curt Hinson, Sleeping Giant No More

43. “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, Confidence

44. “There is no limit to what great and beautiful things the human being can create with the power of a balanced mind that is open to the inspiration of GOD.” – Paul Odafe Akpomukai, Life without Stress and Pain

45. “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, How To Become And Stay Motivated

46. “However, it is one thing to be consumed by your future financial goals, and another thing to be making progress and enjoying the process with a more balanced life by doing what brings you joy.” – Maggie Thompson, Codepency: You’re Codependent – How To Stop Worrying and Love Yourself

47. “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, Self Esteem: Self Confidence

48. “There are many successful businesses but few successful families. Yet, David O. McKay has said that ‘No other success can compensate for failure in the home.’ Without healthy relationships with family and friends, a person doesn’t truly have personal freedom. His life is out of balance.” – Benjamin P. Hardy, Slipstream Time Hacking: How to Cheat Time, Live More, and Enhance Happiness

49. “Live a life that is well balanced; don’t do things in excess.” – Daniel Smith

50. “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
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Wise and inspirational balance quotes

51. “But you do have choices about how you spend your time. Balancing what you need to do with what you want to do can lead to happiness and success.” – Stephen Hall

52. “Balance is key, without balance there’s conflict , a battle between positivity and negativity.” – Brian Benjamin Sotomayor

53. “Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.” – Maxwell Maltz

54. “When we focus on our blessings it creates an appreciative heart and adds a strong sense of balance to our lives.” – Senora Roy

55. “Take some time to learn which opinions you need to value and which ones you simply need to stop listening to. Once you find the balance, you are one step closer to finding that confidence that you long for.” – Frankie Robinson

56. “Happiness depends on how you balance your life’s equations between positive and negative experiences and attitudes.” –Kall

57. “You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.” – Nigella Lawson

58. “Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.” – Jana Kingsford

59. “Balance your thoughts with action. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee

60. “Don’t work so hard that you forget to enjoy your life.”― Akiroq Brost

61. “Achieve balance through the combined conscious states of the heart and mind.” – Steven Redhead

62. “Self-care is how you take your power back.”― Lalah Delia

63. “It’s always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.” – Oren Peli

64. “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

65. “Nature does not take sides, it is just maintaining or restoring the balance.”― Mihail Militaru

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More balance quotes and sayings

66. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

67. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky

68. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe

69. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

70. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

71. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

72. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

73. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho

74. “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” – Nicholas Sparks

75. “Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.” – Thomas Szasz

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Balance quotes about finding the peace in life

76. “Everything in life… has to have balance.” — Donna Karan

77. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

78. “Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.” — Gregory Peck

79. “It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.” — Philip Green

80. “I do find that there’s a fine balance between preparation and seeing what happens naturally.” — Timothee Chalamet

81. “There is no decision that we can make that doesn’t come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.” — Simon Sinek

82. “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

83. “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” — Barbara De Angelis

84. “Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.” — Brian Tracy

85. “It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.” — Henri Poincare

Which of these quotes on balance did you like best?

Balance, like the word itself, is difficult for most of us to achieve.

However, it’s necessary if we want to live content yet fulfilled lives.

How about you, are you living a balanced life right now? How important do you think is it for future success and contentment?

Share your thoughts with us in the comments section below.