Top 100 Quotes About Life Work Balance
#1. 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
#2. I think a good life-work balance is important, and that's even more important in some cases on the space station.
Scott Kelly
#3. When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!
Natalie Massenet
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
Sheryl Sandberg
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
Nathan Sawaya
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Those who feel satisfied with their personal lives are more satisfied with their careers and perform better.
Michael Hyatt
#16. 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
#17. 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
#19. 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
#20. Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.
Simon Sinek
#21. When work is going well, your home life struggles and vice versa. If my kids are OK - that is the most important thing. I strive for balance in my life, though.
Bobby Davro
#22. 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
#23. Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.
Penelope Ann Miller
#24. There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.
Janice Marturano
#25. It's about having an active lifestyle, staying healthy, and making the right decisions. Life is about balance. Not everybody wants to run a marathon, but we could all start working out and being active, whether you walk to work or take an extra flight of stairs.
Apolo Ohno
#26. 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
#27. Do what you love allows us to valorize elite workers, those who choose to overwork, and ignore those who have to overwork.
Miya Tokumitsu
#29. 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
#31. 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
#32. I'm constantly struggling. You know, the stories that I feel like I could cover, do the work that I want to do and being a mother. That's really where my struggle is - and being a wife and having a life - and for me it's really hard to find that balance. I'm always struggling to find that balance.
Lynsey Addario
#33. A true balance between work and life
comes with knowing that your life
activities are integrated, not separated.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#34. Work / life balance comes down the three simple words: your feelings matter too.
Jason Garner
#35. Remember: Research shows that emotions are contagious. How will you infect others at work today?
Alexander Kjerulf
#36. A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.
Tom Freston
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.
Richard Branson
#40. Buddy, that's life. You always work to balance the scales. You don't wanna owe someone something, even it it's only in your head that you owe 'em and they don't give a shit. It'll fuck with you. So you give back to balance the scales.
Kristen Ashley
#41. Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me.
Nelly Furtado
#42. It's important to have balance in your life between work and play.
Bobby Flay
#43. Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning?
I did.
Jack Kerouac
#44. 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
#45. Don't work too hard. Try to maintain balance. Don't make work your whole life.
Bronnie Ware
#46. The Ice Cream Cone Charm
You Will Never Work A Day Once You Discover A Passion That Makes Your Life Rich & Sweet
Viola Shipman
#47. My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day-even if someone's not paying you to do It. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life, and have patience.
Giancarlo Esposito
#48. 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
#49. It's really hard, when you have a heavy workload, because it just really pulls you out of your life. It's nice to have some balance. I get to work and enjoy that part of me, but then I have time to have a life and be with my kids.
Blair Underwood
#50. Want to have better and more effective meetings? Get rid of the tables in your meeting room. It's weird but it works.
Alexander Kjerulf
#51. The effects of overworking; you forget which day it is and unable to think straight.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#52. I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry.
Drew Barrymore
#53. Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean's The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it's the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.
Fennel Hudson
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. See yourself as the perfect creation that you are, but at the same time, recognize with sincere honesty, the areas of your life that are out of balance and get to work to improve and grow.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#60. Working smarter is learning to prioritize, plan, and focus our energies with meaningful intent.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#61. Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.
Evan Williams
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Everyone has to work where he is able to maximize what he has been given to the fullest.
Sunday Adelaja
#66. 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
#69. 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
#70. Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls
family, health, friends, integrity
are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
Gary Keller
#71. Maybe anyone can do what he or she loves, but only the wealthy can avoid going into debt to pay for it.
Miya Tokumitsu
#72. It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out.
Fritz Lang
#74. 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
#75. You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you.
Fennel Hudson
#76. I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all!
Nan Little
#77. You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.
Heather Schuck
#78. The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
Stephen Covey
#79. If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.
Richie Norton
#80. I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.
David Bowie
#81. Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.
Sam Altman
#82. 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
#83. I've always been very aware of balance and, even before I had a child, my life always takes priority to my work.
Charlize Theron
#84. If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
#85. Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.
Jason Calacanis
#86. Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.
Kathy Ireland
#87. It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.
Kelly Link
#88. 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
#89. When in doubt, ask yourself this: What would a really happy person do? Then do that.
Alexander Kjerulf
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. Success isn't just work, but finding the right balance between life and work.
Antonius Houston
#93. 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
#94. A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.
P. J. O'Rourke
#95. Work is just a part of our Life, not vice versa. So Live life full time, work work, part time.
Vikrmn
#97. My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right.
Hayley Mills
#98. People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn't belong to them.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
#99. Many people who hold giver values in life choose matching as their primary reciprocity style at work, seeking an even balance of give and take.
Adam Grant
