Brian Moynihan Quotes

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

I've been told many times that I should give up trying to find balance in my life, but I refuse.

I don't torture myself.

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy.

When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.

I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.

We can easily get our lives out of balance.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

I know that balance that I need to have in my life.

You have to find ways to find that center, to find that balance, to find sanity, because again, we are getting bigger, and people look at us that way. We have to find that new balance.

Sometimes, the best shots you can put up are the ones when you don't shoot the ball - you gotta give your legs a rest sometimes.

I'm constantly trying to be strong, to be calm when things get tough. The biggest part of that is keeping things in perspective, not being afraid of playing long matches, not putting too much pressure on yourself. It can't be all or nothing, right here, right now.

The one thing I'm good at is taking things day by day.

Have a good sense of perspective and be able to snap yourself out of bad moods, as we often wind ourselves up about the silliest things.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.