Work And Life Balance Quotes:

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 W. Keller

topic: Integrity, Glasses, Balance, Bounce, Juggling

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

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Office, Wish, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance, Life Balance

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

source: "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

topic: Fun, Balance, Trying, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I've been doing that since I had kids. I did that when I was at Google, I did that here, and I would say it's not until the last year, two years, that I'm brave enough to talk about it publicly. Now I certainly wouldn't lie, but I wasn't running around giving speeches on it." "...there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

- Sheryl Sandberg

source: "Sheryl Sandberg Leaves Work at 5:30 Every Day — And You Should Too" by Laura Donovan, mashable.com. April 05, 2012.

topic: Life, Running, Lying, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

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 Bernstein

topic: Stress, Numbers, Balance, Stressors, Work And Life Balance

The most important career decision you'll make is who your life partner is.

- Sheryl Sandberg

topic: Careers, Decision, Balance, Work Life Balance, Life Partner

Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is.

- Evan Williams

topic: Sleep, Exercise, Long, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Order, Work Life Balance, Live Your Life Happy

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Change, Work, Life Changing, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Mean, Kids, Weekend, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

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

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Encouragement, Good Sense Of Humor, Life Is Tough

I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.

- Beyonce Knowles

source: "Beyonce Knowles: It's Possible to Balance Work and Family" by celebrity-mania.com, March 2, 2011.

topic: Mother, Family Love, Unity, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

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

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Mom, Wrestling, Home, Work Life Balance, Tough Economic Times

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

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Games, Tennis, Competition, Sports Mental Toughness, Intense Training

Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

- Brad Feld

topic: Balance, Amy, Changing Your Life, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

You have to be prepared to give creative work 150%. I hear a lot of young people talking about life/work balance, which I think is great when you’re in your 30s. If you’re in your 20s and already talking about that, I don’t think you will achieve your goals. If you really want to build a powerful career, and make an impact, then you have to be prepared to put in blood, sweat, and tears.

- Ellen Lupton

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Impact, Work Life Balance, Sweat And Tears

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

- Thomas Kinkade

source: "A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying". Book by Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, December 9, 2004.

topic: Successful, Joy, Balance, Work And Life Balance, Life Balance

The new buzz word in Silicon Valley is "integration". Work-life "balance" is very 2.0. All these women share ways in which they integrate their family life and work. Facebook's head of Global Solutions, Carolyn Everson, for example, takes her children along on her business trips once a quarter. They meet her clients, visit new places and get a better understanding of what mom does when she isn't at home with them.

- Willow Bay

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Mom, Children, Home, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

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

topic: Winning, Thinking, Issues, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

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

topic: Balance, Definitions, Week, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

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

topic: Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

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

- Matthew Kelly

source: Matthew Kelly (2011). “Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfact ion”, Penguin

topic: Mistake, Balance, Want, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

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 Im writing is real.

- Sophie Kinsella

topic: Real, Mistake, Writing, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

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

- Sam Altman

topic: Reality, Choices, Balance, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

I believe a balanced life is essential, and I try to make sure that all of our employees know that and live that way. It's crucial to me as a manager that I help ensure that our employees are as successful as our customers and partners.

- Marc Benioff

topic: Believe, Successful, Balance, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

- Michelle Obama

topic: Jobs, Lists, Needs, Better Jobs, Work Life Balance

Believe that things will work out... follow your intuition and curiosity... trust your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path... You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Heart, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

- Michelle Obama

source: "Encouraging Quotes from Michelle Obama", www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Jobs, Women, Eye, Better Jobs, Work And Life Balance

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

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

- Stephen Covey

topic: Struggle, Men, Challenges, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

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

- Philip Green

topic: Life, Family, Quality, Quality Of Life, Work And Life Balance

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

- Robert Fulghum

topic: Life, Dance, Thinking, Work And Life Balance, Life Balance

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

- Alain de Botton

source: Twitter post from Oct 14, 2015

topic: Fighting, Balance, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance, Work Family

I wish I had spent more time at the office.

- Paul Tsongas

topic: Time, Office, Wish, Deathbed, Work And Life Balance

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

- Harold S. Kushner

topic: Years, Office, Balance, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

There is no such thing as work-life balance. There is work, there is life, and there is no balance.

- Sheryl Sandberg

topic: Balance, Work Life Balance, Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

source: "Sheryl Sandberg:‘There’s No Such Thing As Work-Life Balance’" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 04, 2012.

topic: Balance, Work Life Balance, Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Careers, Balance, Politics, Professional Career, Work Life Balance

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

topic: Balance, Imagine, Hours, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Motivational, Success, Business, Success Stories, Determination And Success

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

- Dolly Parton

source: Twitter post from Aug 09, 2010

topic: Busy, Forget, Live Life Happy, One Life To Live, Work And Life Balance

When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'

- Steve Blank

topic: Father, Balance, Gone, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Inspirational, Breakup, Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress Management

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

topic: Thinking, Order, Discipline, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

- Jack Welch

source: "Bloomberg discrimination decision loaded against work-life balance" by Janice D'Arcy, www.washingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.

topic: Choices, Balance, Consequence, Work Life Balance, Work And Life Balance

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

- John Wooden

topic: Balance, Busy, Forget, Making A Living, Work And Life Balance

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Young Entrepreneurs