Work Life Balance Quotes

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 answer to finding better work/life balance is to find the right blend between all our life activities - regardless of where and when they occur. ~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

I think it will help people have a better work-life balance, that's really important - that's the centre ground for me, it's the issues people care about in their lives. ~ David Cameron

Forget work-life balance...Do the thing you want and create systems to support that. Perfectly imbalanced in the direction you want to go is perfectly acceptable. ~ Richie Norton

Sometimes we just have to suck it up and do what we have to do, until we are able to do what we want to do. ~ Mark W. Boyer

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real. ~ Qiu Xiaolong

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none. ~ Kathryn Minshew

You can't be happy at work every day. No matter how much you love your job, there are still going to be bad days. And that's cool - it's always OK to have a bad day at work. ~ Alexander Kjerulf

Balance in impossible; memories are better. (TILT-7 Solutions To Be A Guilt-free Working Mom) ~ Marci Fair

If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you. ~ Richie Norton

How do I structure my life to be at peace with who I am, & comfortable with what I'm doing & not doing? ~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do. ~ Bob Goff

You make a difference for every single person you come into contact with at work. Is that difference for the better or worse? ~ Alexander Kjerulf

Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction. ~ Matthew Kelly

Work-Life Freedom > Work-Life Balance ~ Richie Norton

You're probably wondering what the heck I mean by "The Pillars of Your Life", right? Well this is simple. It's the things that make your life what it is. The things or people that make you, you. There's work, family, your hobby, your art, and your traditions. Except, some of us have wonky pillars. Some of us give one pillar too much to hold, and the others not enough. One's too tall, whilst the others are too small. Therefore we become unstable, and sometimes, everything comes crashing down. ~ S.R. Crawford

Don't waste time worrying about work/life balance, or looking for your best self, sham "secrets" or any other snake oil being pushed by sloppy hippies who have never built a business, let alone a bankroll, or you will wake up 20 years from now poor, pissed off and primed for a midlife crisis. ~ Ari Gold

Getting married has certainly made a massive difference to my own life. So I am committed to giving support for family finances and having the right policies for work-life balance that make it easier for couples to have a rich family life. ~ Gordon Brown

The speed of modern life is an oppressive thing, and the corporate world is quick to punish those with an honest heart. ~ Fennel Hudson

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion. ~ Simon Sinek

I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world. ~ Irene Rosenfeld

I've had jobs that allow me the flexibility to achieve work-life balance, to be there when one of the kids sinks a jump shot or for the parent-teacher meetings. I can move tasks around. If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening. ~ Thomas Perez

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has - and how grateful we are for what we have - no one has it all. ~ Sheryl Sandberg

Work / life balance comes down the three simple words: your feelings matter too. ~ Jason Garner

The politics of time was clarified in my women's liberation group in the 1970's when one of us, a mother of small children, found herself single. Parenting and providing seemed irreconcilable. Within a generation it had become the norm. By 2010 single parents comprised 25 per cent of all families and 60 per cent had a paid job. The agenda this implies is obvious: not the trick of work-life balance that assigns responsibility to women but a political economy that has at its heart not a breadwinner who is an unencumbered, cared-for man but a mother.

Women's appeal to men to share parenting has, of course, been answered by millions of men. They attend the birth of their babies, they fall in love with them and then soon, too soon, before they have even got acquainted, they leave the babies and the mother's from morning till night and go back to their paid jobs. Nowhere have men reciprocated women's paid work and unpaid care by initiating mass movements for men's equal parental leave or working time that synchronizes with children and women; nowhere have men en masse shared the costs - in time and money - of childhood. ~ Beatrix Campbell

To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What I'm writing is real. ~ Sophie Kinsella

No, life is meant to be a celebration; celebration is its central note. If someone asks you, better ask this question of yourself: "Do I live to work or work to live?" Then the answer will become very clear to you, and you will move much closer to Krishna. You do everything so you live, and not so you live to work and work meaninglessly. And to live you don't need to do much; too much doing has no meaning. ~ Osho

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister. ~ Tony Abbott

See, happiness at work is an emotion. It comes from inside of you, and like all other emotions it is difficult to define, but inescapable once it's present. Or not present. Can you define love? Poets have tried for thousands of years and aren't getting much closer. But when you're feeling love, you're acutely aware of it, even though you have no formal definition. ~ Alexander Kjerulf

Remember: Research shows that emotions are contagious. How will you infect others at work today? ~ Alexander Kjerulf

There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it. ~ Janice Marturano

Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It's about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It's about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work. ~ Alexander Kjerulf

Get up and move at work today! Don't spend the whole day on your butt. Take a walk. Get some exercise. Play a game. Move! ~ Alexander Kjerulf

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to. ~ Alain De Botton

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up. ~ Gael Garcia Bernal

Love happens in the blink of an eye. One moment your heart is yours, and the next it belongs to someone you never intended to give it to. There is no transition. No earning on his part. Just foolish trust and hope for a future of happiness and emotional fulfillment. As much as we hope for a happily ever after, life doesn't work that way. ~ J.C. Reed