173 Life Balance Quotes

Following is our list of life balance quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about family and work-life balance.

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Famous Life Balance Quotes

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

The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account. — Chris Gardner

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play. — Erik Erikson

The secret of a balanced life is to live each moment in the right spiritual frame of mind. — Harold Klemp

Life is a balance between rest and movement. — Osho

Finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is a great achievement. — Rickson Gracie

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity. - Sogyal Rinpoche

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity. — Sogyal Rinpoche

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock. — Queen Elizabeth II

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

Manage the remarkable balance between acting from your heart and close to your gifts with completing the obligations that your labor and tasks require of you. Leverage opportunity AND seize joy. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Life is balance of holding on and letting go. — Rumi

In life... we need to find a balance. You have to set rules and limitations - that is called discipline. And you have to practice that in all your worlds. — Cesar Millan

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

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. — Euripides

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

Short Life Balance Quotes

  • Optimal health is achieved through a balance of nutrition, exercise, and mindset. — Eric Berg
  • Good health is about balance and moderation, not extremes. — Rhonda Patrick
  • It is through the balance of body, mind, and soul that we find true power. — Wim Hof
  • The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive. — Carlos Castaneda
  • Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work. — Rick Rubin
  • Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. — Dolly Parton
  • In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. — T. L. Scrutton
  • Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound. — Walter Annenberg
  • Part of being a helathy person is being well integrated and at peace. — Candace Pert

Top 10 Life Balance Quotes

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Moving Forward In A Positive Direction - Colin StuckertAlbert Einstein

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way. — Fulton J. Sheen

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. — Stephen Covey

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. — Gregory Peck

As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing. — Lewis Howes

All my friends revolve around work. — MrBeast

Knowledge workers train, sprint, rest, and re-assess. — Naval Ravikant

A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]

The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors. — Christopher Paolini

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Life balance quote Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep moving
Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep moving

Work-life-balance Quotes

Forty-hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. — Naval Ravikant

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

True success is exiting some rat race to modulate one’s activities for peace of mind. — Edward O. Thorp

Life balance quote Balance is key in life.
Balance is key in life.

Forty hour work weeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess. — Naval Ravikant

Weirdly enough, the best thing for my mental health was giving into my innate nature to work. And the most depressed I get is when I try to restrict it, like, 'I don't work weekends' or 'I don't work this day.' — MrBeast

Don’t work hard just so you can take a holiday. Work hard to build a life that you don’t need to take a holiday from. — Steven Bartlett

Life balance quote A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it
A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it.

It's hard to overstate how much joy I've gained from removing a daily commute and team meetings from my work life. — Steven Bartlett

What's best for me is just to work when I feel like working. — MrBeast

You can trade money for time by working less and buying goods and services that save time. Hire household help, a personal assistant, and pay other people to do things you don’t want to do. — Edward O. Thorp

You know you love what you do if, on your vacations, you’re more excited to work because you won’t be interrupted. — Alex Hormozi

Family And Work-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

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it. — Alanis Morissette

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

Life balance quote Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep moving
Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep moving

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

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

When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. Thats when I did up my house, started spending time with my family and friends and did all that a normal girl would do. All these things I was balancing with my work. — Rani Mukerji

Life balance quote Life is a balance of holding on and letting go .
Life is a balance of holding on and letting go .

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

Having the balance of a work life and a family life has been so good for me. — Nelly Furtado

A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person. — P. J. O'Rourke

Young women who I think do the best job of balancing family life and a big career start businesses or work for themselves. That's the best way of being in charge of your life. — Gail Sheehy

Work And Personal Life Balance Quotes

I've learned, finally, how to balance work with having a personal life. I had to separate my personal and my professional life but now that I only have loving people in my life my personal and professional life blend together. — Doreen Virtue

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

My people are at the core of everything I do, and I recognize the importance of giving them the flexibility to balance work around their personal lives. — Richard Branson

Life balance quote Balance is key in life.
Balance is key in life.

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

Work Life Balance Quotes

Sophisticated foods are bittersweet wine, beer, coffee, chocolate. Addictive relationships are cooperative and competitive. Work becomes flow at the limits of ability. The flavor of life is on the edge. — Naval Ravikant

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

If you don't want to live a life where you go to a job every day just so you can enjoy your weekends and get two weeks of vacation every year, then don't do it. — Lewis Howes

Life balance quote Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

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

Don't confuse having a career with having a life. — Hillary Clinton

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

I wish I had spent more time at the office. — Paul Tsongas

I felt that working at an office from the early morning was impossible for me. Anyway, I wanted to be free from that lifestyle as soon as possible. I wanted to take it easy. — Akira Toriyama

Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the greatest. — Akira Toriyama

Life is about balance, you have to have time for work, and time for play. If you don’t allow these two things to co-exist you have an imbalance. — Jay-Z

Work And Life Balance Quotes

As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It's important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former may bounce back when you miss, but the glass balls will crack if you let them fall. So prioritise, prioritise, prioritise. — Nita Ambani

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. — Thomas Kinkade

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being. — Orison Swett Marden

That balance of love for your work and love in your life is an interesting thing. — Emma Stone

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

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

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade. — Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

Work-life Balance Quotes

Work-life balance is one of the biggest misconceptions people have. — Robert Herjavec

I live a pretty balanced life. As hard as I do work & as many things that I do... I take a lot of time to stay physically strong. I really just try to get the proper rest. I don't run myself into the ground. — Rob Dyrdek

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

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

If I were a medical doctor, I would probably be a dermatologist, because they have great work-life balance. Not because I'm passionate about people's skin. They have great hours. I have friends who are dermatologists, and they tell me it's great. — Hasan Minhaj

Life is all about balance: sprinting hard and fast, breathing deep and slow. Working out with my coaches, playing with my kids. Eating whole foods for fuel, enjoying a glass of wine with friends. — Amanda Beard

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

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is. — Evan Williams

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

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

Life Is All About Balance Quotes

You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor. — Carol Bartz

I want a guy who takes charge, but lets me have my say once in a while. A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry. — Taylor Swift

Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends. — RuPaul

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that. — Wendie Malick

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

I think the most important thing is in life, it's all about balance. It's balance between foods you like and nutrition. — Travis Lane Stork

I think life is all about having a balance, and trying to find equilibrium and not getting things one way or the other. — Tiger Woods

Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out. — Frederick Lenz

I have carried my Jamaican Flag with pride around the world to share my culture and experience with others because I seek Balance which is what I believe life is all about. — Sean Paul

Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well. — Sandy Fussell

Work Balance Quotes

Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality — Giorgio Armani

Work crazy hours when you feel like it, but then recharge. — MrBeast

Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure. — Muhammad Asad

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential. — Ellen Goodman

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement. — James F. Byrnes

If it’s work, do it fast. If it’s food, eat it little by little. — Filipino Proverbs

I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better. — Xi Jinping

Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time -- she's my balance. — Oral Roberts

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made. — Norman McLaren

Finding Balance Quotes

The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom. — Nikos Kazantzakis

Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well. — Cathy Freeman

Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality. — Shigeo Shingo

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another. — Jocko Willink

There will always be some who, for whatever reason, find themselves dependent on the charity of others. But when half the population is along for the ride, the system becomes dangerously out of balance. Things fall apart. — Tucker Carlson

In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt. — Geeta Iyengar

Healthy attachment doesn’t mean losing yourself in someone else; it’s about finding a balance between closeness and individuality. — Amir Levine

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. — Dave Barry

It is an art in itself to compose a starting team, finding the balance between creative players and those with destructive powers, and between defence, construction and attack – never forgetting the quality of the opposition and the specific pressures of each match. — Rinus Michels

Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary is trying to be about for me, finding balance, where the beauty that is attainable in the creative arts can be matched with the scratchy roughness of regular life. — Ethan Hawke

Perfect Balance Quotes

Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe. — Nikola Tesla

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. — Brian Tracy

Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence. — Marquis De Sade

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony. — Coco Chanel

Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind. — Nyanaponika Thera

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless. — Rodney Yee

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things. — John Frusciante

Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost. — Andrew Weil

[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience. — Raoul Hausmann

You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance. — Deepak Chopra

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More Life Balance Quotes

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. — Carl Jung

In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto. — Bartholomew Roberts

As long as the mind and ego control the direction of creating, there will always be problems in the outer world, for the ego thinks only of itself and lives in duality. But when the heart is in control, everything comes back to balance, for the heart feels and knows only the oneness of life. — Drunvalo Melchizedek

We work harder and harder and stress ourselves out to achieve more and more, but to what end? So we can become lawyers and businesspeople? So we can make lots of money to buy a big house or a fancy car but that can’t buy us happiness or health? I saw too much of that misery, which is why I withdrew from that world a long time ago. — Wim Hof

Life is a combination. Of two things, of happiness and sorrow, of good and bad, of pain and joy. Even if it is a gift for some people. And trouble for some. But it is. And that makes it fun and memorable. — Vishesh Panthi

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance. — John C. Bogle

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole. — Mahatma Gandhi

A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life. — Arabic Proverbs

Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance. — Tara Brach

The state can confiscate your money, Twitter can confiscate your username, YouTube can confiscate your revenue, and tech companies can lock you out of your digital life. At the press of a key. That’s not the right balance of power. BTC/web3 shifts leverage back to individuals. — Balaji Srinivasan

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder. — William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness. — Brigham Young

The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive. — Kurt Hahn

I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost. — Stella McCartney

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be. — John Robbins

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