Top 100 Quotes About Life Balance
#1. So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
Sheryl Sandberg
#2. 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
#3. Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
Stephen Covey
#4. So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well.
Jack Welch
#5. There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.
Janice Marturano
#6. 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
#7. Work / life balance comes down the three simple words: your feelings matter too.
Jason Garner
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.
Andrew J. Bernstein
#18. Work-life balance, work-life effectiveness, personal and professional satisfaction - or whatever you choose to call it - is not an entitlement or benefit. Your company cannot give it to you. You have to create it for yourself. You are personally responsible for living the best life you can.
Matthew Kelly
#19. The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
Stephen Covey
#20. Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.
Sam Altman
#21. There is nothing wrong with loving your work and wanting to apply yourself to it. But there is so much more to life. Balance is what is important, maintaining balance.
Bronnie Ware
#22. Framing the issue of work-life balance - as if the two were dramatically opposed - practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
Sheryl Sandberg
#23. Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.
Kathryn Minshew
#24. 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
#25. Work-life balance is one of the biggest misconceptions people have,
Robert Herjavec
#26. 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
#27. There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
Jack Welch
#28. 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
#29. True life balance takes concentration, confidence, self-esteem, a positive mental attitude, and self-control. It's a challenge, for sure, but it's a challenge worth taking on.
Jay Rifenbary
#30. 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
#31. Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.
Matthew Kelly
#32. I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I'm off, I don't want to think about work. When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That's how you end up checking email all day Saturday.
Timothy Ferriss
#33. 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
#34. The phrase 'work/life balance' encapsulates a depressing outlook.
Tom Hodgkinson
#35. There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
Alain De Botton
#36. Does our reading life balance or subvert our waking life?
Ander Monson
#37. There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage.
Michael Hyatt
#38. In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.
Toni Braxton
#39. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary.
Clarence DeMar
#45. If I had a long-term partner, I don't think I'd be an actor. It'd be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff - it would be too much.
Rory McCann
#46. We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.
Janet Fitch
#47. I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
Vanessa Minnillo
#48. When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.
Gina Greenlee
#49. Oh darling,
The darkness is a gift,
And when you realise this,
You will never be defeated
Again.
Nikki Rowe
#50. 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
#51. Meditation has been an anchor throughout my life - it helps me feel balance, connected and at peace.
Mallika Chopra
#52. 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
#53. You completely redefine my idea of what love is and should be. That it needn't be possessive, volatile or detrimental to your well-being, but can be selfless, gentle and consistent -- and should empower you to pursue your passions. That it should balance and enrich a life, not tear it to pieces.
Beau Taplin
#54. Lose your balance for a moment and there you go, the world flings you off its spinning surface and its not so easy to scramble back on.
Christina Sunley
#55. It is with eight lengthy legs we use to catch food, balance and knit a beautiful silk bed,
but as babies we had lost our bones and skin, and hence our legs we had shed.
Jasmine Jean
#56. People try to get into your life. They try and keep you off-balance, keep you from making good decisions that will empower you - because if your attention field is sharp - you will see if anyone is in your life for ill reasons.
Frederick Lenz
#57. But when we crave power over life - endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality - then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#58. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.
David Lagercrantz
#59. I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.
Kenny Chesney
#60. Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.
Deepak Chopra
#61. In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.
Bill Gates
#62. You can use power for good or bad, for control or freedom. You grew up watching your dad abuse it one way and it made you take the opposite direction. That's what we all think. Everything's about balance. That's what sustains life. Maybe your role is to keep your dad in check?
Katie Kacvinsky
#63. I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.
Kate Hudson
#64. Life isn't a balance between throwing out and inviting in.
Rajneesh
#65. I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
Nathan Sawaya
#66. Each day is a journey. We come out of the night into the day. All creativity awakens at this primal threshold where light and darkness test and bless each other. You only discover balance in your life when you learn to trust the flow of this ancient rhythm.
John O'Donohue
#67. The purpose of life is to live. The meaning of life is whatever you choose. The secret to life is balance in all things ...
James A. Murphy
#68. I balance you
on the end of my pen.
Teetering between love
and letting go.
Jessica Kristie
#69. The balance to life is kale cakes and cupcakes
Joe
#70. Every day, I have something that is so full of nutrition and so full of foods that give you life, rather than take them away, that it makes me feel amazing and really good inside. It balances my blood sugar, balances out all of the things that I need, the nutrition that I need to get into my body.
Vani Hari
#71. No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.
Dave Eggers
#72. We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have ... the earth and nature.
Dave Davies
#73. 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
#74. Life is a balance between giving and receiving. The more you give, the more abundance will fill your life with joy.
Debasish Mridha
#75. Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.
Serge Schmemann
#76. Good and evil," Nick said. "Yin and yang. Male and female. Life and death. The dualities that make us human. As though our lives play out on an immense balance scale - move one way, the scale tips to the left, but move the other, and it swings around to the right.
Abramelin Keldor
#77. I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.
Lily Collins
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
Olivia Newton-John
#81. Life is a constant build up and release of tension. If we go too far in either direction bad things happen.
Chris Matakas
#82. What's the point of massive achievement if your life has no balance? And what's the point of winning the game if you never take the time to celebrate and appreciate the life you have? There's nothing worse than a rich person who's chronically angry or unhappy.
Anthony Robbins
#83. If you're worried about life-work balance, something is probably wrong with your life or your work. Instead of agonizing over balance, get excited and create change.
Chris Guillebeau
#84. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
Teddy Sears
#85. Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.
LZ Granderson
#86. 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
#87. Those who feel satisfied with their personal lives are more satisfied with their careers and perform better.
Michael Hyatt
#88. 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
#89. I find that so often this work can so easily overcome you and knock you out of balance and become all you think about and all you care about and all you feel is important in your life, and it's kind of the opposite. Relationships first and people first and then you can be a great performer.
Erin Davie
#92. Life is a balance of conversation, coersion, and cooperation!
Garrett McCoy
#93. The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#94. I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.
Carol Bartz
#95. I know he hasn't a mean or petty bone in him, but one can err on the side of caution as well as rashness.
Raymond E. Feist
#96. There is a law of opposition apparent in all life which guarantees balance and fullness.
Bryant McGill
#97. I, Alex Cross do solemnly promise-to all those present at this birthday party- to do my best to balance my life at home with my work,life,and not to go over to the dark side ever again.
James Patterson
#98. You will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
H. Ross Perot
#99. Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.
Keith Urban
#100. When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
