Life Balance Quotes

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. ~ Philip Green

I know what it takes to balance budgets. I have done it my entire life. ~ Mitt Romney

No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office. ~ Malcolm Forbes

If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors. ~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

During one memorable meeting, a female employee pointedly asked Bezos when Amazon was going to establish a better work-life balance. He didn't take that well. "The reason we are here is to get stuff done, that is the top priority," he answered bluntly. "That is the DNA of Amazon. If you can't excel and put everything into it, this might not be the place for you. ~ Brad Stone

There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage. ~ Michael Hyatt

Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance. ~ Tara Brach

Time Progression: Wasting >>Spending >> Managing >> Investing ~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism. ~ Peter Hook

The rich flow of creativity, innovation, and almost musical complexity we are looking for in a fulfilled work life cannot be reached through trying or working harder. The medium for the soul, it seems, must be the message. The river down which we raft is made up of the same substance as the great sea of our destination. It is an ever-moving, firsthand creative engagement with life and with others that completes itself simply by being itself. This kind of approach must be seen as the "great art" of working in order to live, of remembering what is most important in the order of priorities and what place we occupy in a much greater story than the one our job description defines. Other "great arts," such as poetry, can remind and embolden us to this end. Whatever we choose to do, the stakes are very high. With a little more care, a little more courage, and, above all, a little more soul, our lives can be so easily discovered and celebrated in work, and not, as now, squandered and lost in its shadow. ~ David Whyte

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life. ~ Robert Carlyle

Working smarter is learning to prioritize, plan, and focus our energies with meaningful intent. ~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

The Ice Cream Cone Charm

You Will Never Work A Day Once You Discover A Passion That Makes Your Life Rich & Sweet ~ Viola Shipman

May you find new strength to accomplish your daily work. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When women are economically empowered, the power balance changes in all areas of life. ~ Gloria Feldt

Jeff didn't believe in work-life balance," says Kim Rachmeler. "He believed in work-life harmony. I guess the idea is you might be able to do everything all at once. ~ Brad Stone

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge ... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all. ~ Gore Vidal

I wish I had spent more time at the office. ~ Paul Tsongas

No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition. ~ Tony Abbott

I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of time helps with work/life balance. If I'm checking it all day I start to feel cuckoo-bird. So I just do it once or twice a day instead of a thousand. And then remembering that it doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter. ~ Maria Bamford

Being a person that others can trust is one of the most sought after qualities in the workplace today. So many leaders and their staff have shown in the recent global financial crisis a lack of trust and integrity amongst themselves and with their clients and other stakeholders. ~ Nigel Cumberland

By leading ourselves effectively, we can learn to lead others as a whole person: mind, body, and spirit. ~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life. ~ Terry Bradshaw

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them. ~ Stephen Covey

It's just that when you're trying to balance so many things at the same time, it's inevitable that something's going to fall. ~ Susane Colasanti

Those who feel satisfied with their personal lives are more satisfied with their careers and perform better. ~ Michael Hyatt

My coworkers should understand that I need to go to a party tonight
and this is just as legitimate as their kids' soccer game
because going to a party is the only way I might actually meet someone and start a family so I can have a soccer game to go to one day! ~ Sheryl Sandberg

Wrestling with work-life balance is a luxury when working to support a family is a necessity rather than a choice. I think that focus is only partially a result of these tough economic times. I think it also reflects a bit of "having it all fatigue": women are worn out from feeling the pressure to excel at work, and be the perfect mom at home. ~ Willow Bay

These values are signposts toward another way of living: simplicity of living, as much as possible, to retain a true awareness of life; balance of physical, intellectual, and spiritual life; work without pressure; space for significance and beauty; time for solitude and sharing; closeness to nature to strengthen understanding and faith in the intermittency of life. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Each petal in the universe whispers in our ears that an unknown power is at work. If we align ourselves with this divine energy, offer our work to Him and move on in life, we will never have any worries and anxieties in our life. ~ Sanchita Pandey

don't bite the hand that feeds you, they said. but, what if they are chewing mine off? ~ Shareca Cole.

We had representatives of most every ethnic group in the public school, and I always felt that this gave me a sense of balance about those ethnic problems that was useful to me in later life, and particularly in political life. ~ Prescott Bush

Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation. ~ Danielle LaPorte

Work-life balance is one of the biggest misconceptions people have, ~ Robert Herjavec

Our brain is funny. Its primary function is to keep us safe from danger. It has us believe that in order to insulate us from such, we must work harder, meaner, and longer to stay ahead of potential competitors who can rip the rug out from under us at any moment. But the reality is, when we are well rested and reflective rather than reactive, we put ourselves in a better place; a place that is well insulated from the ultimate danger of meaningless or, even worse, toxic, self-destructive work. ~ Charles F. Glassman

Nobody ever asks men about the work-life balance, and I just find that interesting, because clearly, I would imagine most men also want to be good fathers, and I'm sure they want to be good partners. ~ Katie Couric

I got that money on my mind but I ain't blind. I see that if I want it, I have to grind. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

If you think too much heaven within your mind,
you may have no time for simple things in this life. ~ Toba Beta

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life. ~ Alain De Botton

Balance is not something you find, it's something you create ~ Jana Kingsford

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. ~ Aristotle.

The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life. ~ Ayn Rand

I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.' ~ Beyonce Knowles

I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies - but I don't use that kind of language in public. ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. ~ Gregory Peck

There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it. ~ Seth Godin

The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance. ~ Patrick Dixon

Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job. ~ Kathryn Minshew

Soon I will return to the office, to shuffle paper, delete emails and avoid the Typing Dead. ~ Fennel Hudson

If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance. ~ Harlan Coben

You will not achieve work/life balance as long as you believe there is a difference between the two. When you find life in your work and work with your life, you will have only life. ~ Alan Cohen

No, they didn't have any money, the sea was dangerous and men were lost, but it was a satisfying life in a way people today do not understand. There was a joinery of lives all worked together, smooth in places, or lumpy, but joined. The work and the living you did was the same things, not separated out like today. ~ Annie Proulx

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield. ~ Amanda Palmer

Allow the goals that "speak to your heart" to guide you in your decisions. ~ Richie Norton

Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs. ~ Samantha Stosur

Take things as they come. The less you compare, the happier you will be. And this is not only true at work. ~ Rahul Shrivastava

Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality. ~ Sam Altman

What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.' ~ Michelle Obama

A true balance between work and life
comes with knowing that your life
activities are integrated, not separated. ~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

I know that balance that I need to have in my life. ~ Tiger Woods

She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. She never would have imagined that her day job would be the calmest and least cluttered part of her life. ~ Emily St. John Mandel

Your time is your life. ~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Most of us, at some time or other, get sucked into the lifeless vacuum of work; the cogs of the corporate machine that we keep turning until one day, when we depart this Earth, we may earn the word 'lubricant' on our headstone. ~ Fennel Hudson

Don't work so hard that you forget to enjoy your life. ~ Akiroq Brost

[Clayton] Christensen had seen dozens of companies falter by going for immediate payoffs rather than long-term growth, and he saw people do the same thing. In three hours at work, you could get something substantial accomplished, and if you failed to accomplish it you felt the pain right away. If you spent three hours at home with your family, it felt like you hadn't done a thing, and if you skipped it nothing happened. So you spent more and more time at the office, on high-margin, quick-yield tasks, and you even believed that you were staying away from home for the sake of your family. He had seen many people tell themselves that they could divide their lives into stages, spending the first part pushing forward their careers, and imagining that at some future point they would spend time with their families
only to find that by then their families were gone. ~ Larissa MacFarquhar

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.
It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald

You may not believe in anything called a work-life balance, but your body certainly does. You need to monitor and nurture your body. ~ Vivek Wadhwa

Enduringly successful people, many of whom live a life that's a gift to the world, don't raise balance as a major issue-not because they had it masterfully handled, but because they were all busy doing what mattered to them. ~ Jerry I. Porras

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out. ~ Steve Martin

One of the stated values at IronPort was 'work/life balance,' but I wasn't living it. I was rarely home. And when I was home, well, let's just say I wasn't particularly helpful or cheery. ~ Scott Weiss

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties. ~ Elliot Cowan

Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life. ~ Herbert Spencer

I am not at work, or at the supermarket, or waiting for a bus (metaphorically or otherwise). I am free. ~ Fennel Hudson

Those who take initiative at work, do so not because they are stupid but because they understand the concept of responsibility. ~ Harmon Okinyo

Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer ... Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present. ~ David Cummings

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance. ~ Sheryl Sandberg

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel - a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady ~ H.G.Wells

The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don't commit to being happy at work, you won't be. You won't make the choices that make you happy. You won't take the actions needed to get there. You won't change the things that need to change. ~ Alexander Kjerulf

You know you've found your calling, when you would rather do it and fail, than not do it. ~ Alexander Kjerulf

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. ~ Nigella Lawson

Work is just a part of our Life, not vice versa. So Live life full time, work work, part time. ~ Vikrmn

Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life? ~ Cal Newport

The most adaptive path for you to find your success in these times of purgatory will be in your ability to forget about the notion of work/life balance and find the blend in your work, personal, and community life. ~ Mitch Joel

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. ~ Stephen Covey

You will spend more of your waking hours at work than anything else. If that time doesn't make you happy it's a huge waste of life. ~ Alexander Kjerulf

Don't have work-life balance - at least in the sense of trying to escape from work so you can have a life. Work should be fun - so make work enjoyable and satisfying for everyone - among other reasons because it pays off. ~ Don Tapscott

-There must be balance. Action and reaction. Chaos and order. Death and life. ~ Lanie Bross

Invest in your work life balance. Time with friends and family is as important as times at work. Getting that out of balance is a path toward unhappiness. ~ Stephen Gillett

Don't work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Don't make work your whole life. ~ Bronnie Ware

Work-life balance. This is another touchstone of supposedly "enlightened" management practices that can be insulting to smart, dedicated employees. The phrase itself is part of the problem: For many people, work is an important part of life, not something to be separated. The best cultures invite and enable people to be overworked in a good way, with too many interesting things to do both at work and at home. ~ Eric Schmidt

When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure. ~ Gina Greenlee

When I say I want to abolish work, I mean just what I say, but I want to say what I mean by defining my terms in non-idiosyncratic ways. My minimum definition of work is *forced* *labor*, that is, compulsory production. Both elements are essential. Work is production enforced by economic or political means, by the carrot or the stick. (The carrot is just the stick by other means.) But not all creation is work. Work is never done for its own sake, it's done on account of some product or output that the worker (or, more often, somebody else) gets out of it. ~ Bob Black

His discontent stemmed from dislike rather than appreciation for the hardness growing in him, and the fear that in another ten years he would not recognise himself. The fear that in another twenty, he would not even remember that any doubt had disturbed him. And that in some distant future, age and death would find him - the first person in history to utter on his deathbed: I wish I'd spent more time at the office. ~ Roberta Pearce

Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference. ~ Orlando Bloom

How can you make sense of a place if it won't hold still to be counted and even its colors aren't fast? Their job was to imagine, never to know. The truth, as generations of directors had reminded their charges, would only get in the way. ~ Steve Himmer

Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives in order to work for and pay for all this convenience? ~ Colin Beavan

I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all! ~ Nan Little

The phrase 'work/life balance' encapsulates a depressing outlook. ~ Tom Hodgkinson

The Bird of Paradise, it seemed, had beckoned us on and led us in, to stand here in this place high in the land of volcanoes. It was here in Bali, after returning from the Toraja Star Children, that I first recognized what they meant by us all being born half of heaven and half of earth. And after the mounted warsports of Sumba it was in Balinese ritual that I saw with new eyes the battle for balance between light and darkness. And after Borneo, returning to the sacred Banyan tree and its simian custodians, I had felt that all great trees, what's left of them, do indeed link heaven and earth in a single forest of life. ~ Lawrence Blair