Inspirational life balance quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.

Famous Life Balance Quotes

Moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. – Epicurus

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling. – Art Garfunkel

In addition to helping me feel better, healthier and more balanced, psychotherapy brought some unforeseen extra perks I would have never expected. – Andrew Carley

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. – Lily Tomlin

The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it. – Anonymous

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

It’s also important to give attention to your health and hygiene. Keep yourself healthy by exercising, eating a balanced diet, and sleeping right. – Kathleen Rao

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. I never achieve that. But over the course of a month, or a quarter, or a year, I try to make time for the people and experiences I value . – Jane Park

Balance. The Ultimate Goal. – Ricky Lankford

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

Your beliefs should knock the scale way off balance leaning to the side of love. If the other side is weighed down with worry, guilt, shame, anger or frustration, choose right now to change that! – Debbie Dixon

Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices – Betsy Jacobson

You can maintain work-life balance even while pursuing careers. – Chanda Kochhar

I’ve learned that you can’t have everything and do everything at the same time. – Oprah Winfrey

Self-esteem is a matter of balance. Too much can tip over into haughtiness, arrogance, and the inability to admit when we have gone wrong. – Alan Schmidt

You have to balance your passions, not your time – Lisa Sugar

Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. – Peter Latham

Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be – Shonda Rhimes

However, it is one thing to be consumed by your future financial goals, and another thing to be making progress and enjoying the process with a more balanced life by doing what brings you joy. – Maggie Thompson

Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – Dolly Parton

You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life. – Heather Schuck

Burnout is about resentment. Preventing it is about knowing yourself well enough to know what it is you’re giving up that makes you resentful. – Marissa Mayer

There are many successful businesses but few successful families. Yet, David O. McKay has said that ‘No other success can compensate for failure in the home.’ Without healthy relationships with family and friends, a person doesn’t truly have personal freedom. His life is out of balance. – Benjamin P. Hardy

You can’t do a good job if your job is all you do – Katie Thurmes

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet – neither thirsty nor drunken. – Aristotle

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away – Barbara de Angelis

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

triving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. – Harriet Braiker

Live a life that is well balanced; don’t do things in excess. – Daniel Smith

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

The more often you decline invitations to spend time with friends or family because you are too busy with either work or other activities, the more you should realize that your life is not in balance. – Byron Pulsifer

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

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. – Charles Buxton

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy – Sheryl Sandberg

No matter how busy you are, or how busy you think you are, the work will always be there tomorrow, but your friends might not be. – Anonymous

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

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

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

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. – Steven R. Covey

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

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. – Jessye Norman

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

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

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

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance. – Paul Boese

Focus on being balanced – success is balance. – Laila Ali

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. – Francis J. Braceland

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

What I dream of is an art of balance. – Henri Matisse

Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices. – Betsy Jacobson

The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one. – Wallace D. Wattles

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

Next to love, balance is the most important thing. – John Wooden

We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves. – Mae Jemison

In all aspects of our lives balance is key. Doing one thing too much can cause upset, like the old saying goes, everything in moderation is the secret! – Catherine Pulsifer

“If you’re searching for “”work/life balance”” you’ll always be disappointed because “”balance”” connotes a zero-sum equation. – Stewart D. Friedman “

The problem is that technology has become an extra limb for some of us. It’s important to utilize this technology, but at the same time it’s important to know when to take a break from it. – Alex Broches

Don’t confuse having a career with having a life. – Hillary Clinton

Like with anything in life, find the balance between too much work and being too lazy; between spending too much and being a scrooge; between being gone all the time and being in each other’s way; between talking each other’s ears off and dead silence. – Christian Olsen

Life is a balance of fear and overcoming it. – Jimmy Iovine

Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service. – Hillary Rodham Clinton

Too much of one thing can end up creating stress; this is something that no one needs in their life. But living a life in balance can provide harmony and peace. – Catherine Pulsifer

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. – Susan Sontag

The critical part of a balance in life is choosing priorities. If you are trying to balance a family and a career, the choices are complex because both are important. – Byron Pulsifer

There is no decision that we can make that doesn’t come with some sort of balance or sacrifice. – Simon Sinek