122 Work Life Balance Quotes to Inspire You to Harmony

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Famous Life Work Quotes

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

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

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

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

Life is a balance between rest and movement. — Osho

Working gets in the way of living. — Omar Sharif

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life. — Carlos Slim

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

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. — Edward Bernays

Life is too short to work so hard. - Vivien Leigh

Life is too short to work so hard. — Vivien Leigh

Work hard, but make time for your love, family and friends. Nobody remembers PowerPoint presentations on your final day — Chetan Bhagat

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

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

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity. — John Lennon

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

Short Life Work Quotes

  • Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions. — Pico Iyer
  • Don't confuse having a career with having a life. — Hillary Clinton
  • The secret of a balanced life is to live each moment in the right spiritual frame of mind. — Harold Klemp
  • Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. — Eileen Caddy
  • The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity. — Sogyal Rinpoche
  • Life is balance of holding on and letting go. — Rumi
  • Man the life of a workaholic... You either on ya work or just workin on it. — Big Sean
  • When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two. — Jim Rohn
  • When you’re supposed to be working, work, and when you’re supposed to be playing, play. — Gary Keller

Life Work Image Quotes

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. - Maxim Gorky quote

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. — Maxim Gorky

You only get one life. You might as well spend it working on something great. - Paul Graham quote

You only get one life. You might as well spend it working on something great. — Paul Graham

The devil finds work for idle hands. - Henry David Thoreau quote

The devil finds work for idle hands. — Henry David Thoreau

Good things come to those who wait. - Jess C Scott quote

Good things come to those who wait. — Jess C Scott

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. - A. A. Milne quote

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. — A. A. Milne

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. - Hudson Taylor quote

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. — Hudson Taylor

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching. - Ray Lewis quote

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching. — Ray Lewis

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. - Sheryl Sandberg quote

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. — Sheryl Sandberg

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. - Steve Jobs quote

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. — Steve Jobs

Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work. - Jean Beliveau quote

Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work. — Jean Beliveau

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work - Steve Jobs quote

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work — Steve Jobs

Work is love made visible. - Kahlil Gibran quote

Work is love made visible. — Kahlil Gibran

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius quote

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

Life work quote Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.
Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.

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 work quote Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express not to impress.
Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express not to impress.

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 work quote Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.
Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.

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

No Work Life Balance Quotes

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

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

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

Life work quote If you put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and
If you put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus and you must go beyond them.

There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage. — Michael Hyatt

Good Work Life Balance Quotes

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

Allowing my people to have a good work-life balance by working flexibly is very important to me. — Richard Branson

I prioritize in life. I like to work, I do TV shows, I do a lot of Iron Man training. I enjoy kicking back on a good night and drinking wine until I go to bed, and having fun with my friends. You just have to make time for it and keep it balanced. — Joe Bastianich

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

I am mindful of achieving the right balance in my life and am working hard on that also. To enjoy the little moments of goodness when they appear, to be present with the people I love and to spread light wherever possible. — Kylie Minogue

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

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

Life work quote I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.
I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.

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

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

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to. — Alain de Botton

Work And Life Balance Quotes

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

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

Life work quote Don't worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally
Don't worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.

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

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

Life work quote I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

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

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

Work-life Balance Quotes

All my friends revolve around work. — MrBeast

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

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

Life work quote Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express not to impress
Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express not to impress

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

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

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

Life work quote Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to w
Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

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

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

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

Life work quote We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keep us close to what matter
We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keep us close to what matters.

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

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff. — George Carlin

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More Life Work Quotes

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker

People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence. — Abdul Sattar Edhi

Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work. — Jim Harbaugh

I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team. — Jim Harbaugh

Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do. — Stephen Curry

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. — Michel Foucault

Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. — Alan Watts

Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. — Carol S. Dweck

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness. — Caroline Myss

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty. — Chief Joseph

It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path. — Katharine Drexel

It is our duty to give meaning to the life of future generations by sharing our knowledge and experience; by teaching an appreciation of work well done and a respect for nature, the source of all life; by encouraging the young to venture off the beaten path and avoid complacency by challenging their emotions. — Paul Bocuse

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself. — Jaggi Vasudev

Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. — Alfred Adler

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut — Albert Einstein

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. — Mother Teresa

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience. — David Carson

The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation. — William Osler

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work. — Henri Nouwen

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work. — Julian Bond

Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers. — Matt Groening

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world. — Richard Branson

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy. — Jane Jacobs

You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working. — Emmet Fox

In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby. — Alistair Cooke

In Conclusion

Reading work life balance quotes can be a game-changer for employees. It's like having a personal coach whispering words of encouragement, helping you make conscious choices for a balanced life. These quotes serve as powerful tools to recalibrate your focus, inspiring you to strive for equilibrium between your professional and personal life. They remind us that we are not alone in our quest for balance, fostering a sense of camaraderie. So, why not make these quotes your daily dose of motivation and see the positive impact they bring to your life?

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