When life is really busy then it can be hard to find that good balance between life and work.
But it’s at those times that it’s extra important. For your relationships. Your happiness, both at work and at home. And for your stress levels and health.
Sometimes we just need a reminder to breathe, slow down a bit and remember what truly matters the most in life.
To help you with that and to find a better balance if you feel you need it I’d like to share 90 of the most helpful and inspirational work-life balance quotes.
I hope you’ll find something uplifting and useful here.
Inspirational Work-Life Balance Quotes
“Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.”
– Jana Kingsford
“Remember that work and life coexist. Wellness at work follows you home and vice versa.”
– Melissa Steginus
“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.”
– Simon Sinek
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony.”
– Thomas Merton
“Life is about balance; too much and too little can kill. The best way to balance life is setting your boundaries and learning to say enough.”
– Unknown
“When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude.”
– Cara Delevingne
“Balance is a feeling derived from being whole and complete; it’s a sense of harmony. It is essential to maintaining quality in life and work.”
– Joshua Osenga
“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”
– Dolly Parton
“A true balance between work and life comes with knowing that your life activities are integrated, not separated.”
– Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
“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
“Live a life that is well balanced; don’t do things in excess.”
– Daniel Smith
“The gift of balance in your life – may you find the balance of life, time for work but also time for play. Too much of one thing ends up creating stress that no one needs in their life.”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
– Gustave Flaubert
“Balance provides the chance for longevity. You can be a champion at work and at home.”
– Tony Dungy
“Part of keeping work and life in balance is surrounding yourself with people that have similar aspirations.”
– Damon Dash
“Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.”
– Betsy Jacobson
Funny Work-Life Balance Quotes
“I’m afraid you’ll have to stay late tonight, I want you to attend this talk on work-life balance.”
– Sandra Shea
“Work friends are irreplaceable because no bound is stronger than having to go through the same crap for 8 hours every single day.”
– Unknown
“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 like a cuckoo bird.”
– Maria Bamford
“When going to the office makes you sick, work from home.”
– Fay Collins
“If you don’t have time for a break, you definitely need a break!”
– Dominique Andersen
“Somewhere right now someone is thinking about an excuse not to go to work tomorrow.”
– Bob Simmons
“When my boss tells me I’m failing at work-life balance I like to send a text at 3 a.m. to say ‘Look who’s talking now.’”
– Unknown
“Is it work-life balance when you’re at work and you wish you were home in bed?”
– Unknown
“I love it when companies lie about offering work-life balance.”
– Jay Thomas
“Home-work grew up and became work-from-home.”
– Sam Williams
“Your brain is doing some great work when it’s laughing.”
– Jon Scieszka
“Being self-employed means you work 12 hours a day for yourself so you don’t have to work 8 hours a day for someone else.”
– Unknown
“If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.”
– Dave Barry
“I’m currently out of the office and can be reached by waiting until I get back.”
– Anonymous
“You’ve been working awfully hard lately. If you need a little fresh air and sunshine, go to www.fresh-air-and-sunshine.com”
– Unknown
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
– Jack Torrance (from the movie The Shining)
“To achieve work-life balance you no longer leave your personal life at home, you bring it into work.”
– Jim Harper
Motivational Work-Life Balance Quotes for Your Career
“You don’t have to make yourself miserable to be successful.”
– Andrew Wilkinson
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.”
– Thomas Edison
“Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model.”
– Confucius
“Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer.”
– David Cummings
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
– Stephen R. Covey
“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”
– Charles Buxton
“Most people chase success at work, thinking that will make them happy. The truth is that happiness at work will make you successful.”
– Alexander Kjerulf
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
– Confucius
“Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don’t really want balance. We want satisfaction.”
– Matthew Kelly
“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.”
– Ev Williams
“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.”
– Steve Jobs
“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.”
– Arianna Huffington
“A ‘good job’ can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.”
– Alain de Botton
“Working smarter is learning to prioritize, plan, and focus our energies with meaningful intent.”
– Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
Work-Life Balance Quotes From Women
“Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.”
– Hillary Clinton
“You have to balance your passions, not your time.”
– Lisa Sugar
“Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.”
– Regina Brett
“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
“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.”
– Sophie Kinsella
“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.”
– Marilyn Monroe
“We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.”
– Michelle Obama
“I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.”
– Beyoncé
“Get rid of the guilt. When you’re at one place, don’t feel bad that you’re not at work; when you’re at work, don’t feel bad that you’re not at home.”
– Katie Couric
“Having young kids doesn’t make me any less qualified for that raise/promotion/assignment.”
– Katie M. McLaughlin
“The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.”
– Jane Sellman
“A happy mother is a good mother, and if work makes you hum, your whole family sings along.”
– Sharon Meers
“When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.”
– Anna Quindlen
“If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.”
– Mother Teresa
“The consistency in your person from home to work is vitally important so that you are in total balance at all times.”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“When I think about work-life balance, I don’t imagine it as a perfect day where I got to spend the exact right amount of time having an impact at work and snuggling with my kids at home.”
– Jane Park
“Being a working mom doesn’t mean my family isn’t my first priority.”
– Anonymous
“You can’t do a good job if your job is all you do.”
– Katie Thurmes
“I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.”
– Anna Quindlen
Short Work-Life Balance Quotes
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
– Michael Altshuler
“Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
– Thomas Szasz
“What I dream of is an art of balance.”
– Henri Matisse
“Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.”
– Maxwell Maltz
“Work is just a part of our life, not vice versa.”
– Unknown
“Life will always get busy, make time to do the things you love.”
– Lailah Gifty Akita
“Create a life you don’t need a vacation from.”
– Unknown
“Do less, be more.”
– Elizabeth Grace Saunders
“Everything in life has to have balance.”
– Donna Karan
“Balance. The ultimate goal.”
– Ricky Lankford
“You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”
– Zig Ziglar
“Self-care is how you take your power back.”
– Lalah Delia
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein
“Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.”
– Gregory Peck
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Nature does not take sides, it is just maintaining or restoring the balance.”
– Mihail Militaru
“Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.”
– Epicurus
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
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