84+ Best Work Life Balance Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Balance is a state where things are of equal weight or force. Profoundly inspirational work life balance quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

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Famous Work Life Balance Quotes

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

No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time at the office. Paul Tsongas

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

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. Jim Rohn

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, and that’s when you can do your best, for yourself and for others. Cara Delevingne

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert

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

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert Einstein

You can build your business life where you are working with people you want to work with. Then it becomes a pleasure, and then you can do better. Andy Morgan

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. Epicurus

Remember that work and life coexist. Wellness at work follows you home and vice versa. Melissa Steginus

Struggle doesn’t make success happen. In fact, struggle can prevent succes from happening. IF you seek struggle you will find it. if you seek ease, you will find it. Rich Fettke

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

Do less, be more. Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Be steady and well ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert

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

You can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you. Marissa Mayer

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

Self care is, fundamentally, about bringing balance back to a life that has grown imbalanced from too many commitments or responsibilities. Robyn L Gobin

Work life balance is not an entitlement or benefit. Your company cannot give it to you. You have to create it for yourself. Matthew Kelly

Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. Epicurus

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. Stephen Covey

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

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

It’s time to give yourself a break, embrace the life you have, and make adjustments that will allow you to grow in the areas that are crucial to your most important commitments as well as your happiness. Dan Thurmon

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

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. Maria Bamford

Always take some of the play, fun, freedom, and wonder of the weekend into your week and your work. Rasheed Ogunlaru

Balance is not something you find; it’s something you create. Jana Kingsford

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

Getting in balance is not so much about adopting new strategies to change your behaviors, as it is about realigning yourself in all of your thoughts so as to create a balance between what you desire and how you conduct your life on a daily basis. Wayne Dyer

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

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

Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week and your work. Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

Do less, be more. Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is. Ev Williams

Don’t confuse having a career with having a life. Hilary Clinton

You can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you. Marissa Mayer

Work life balance is not an entitlement or benefit. Your company cannot give it to you. You have to create it for yourself. Matthew Kelly

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

Working smarter is learning to prioritize, plan, and focus our energies with meaningful intent. Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. Sydney J. Harris

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. Stephen R. Covey

When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work. Anna Quindlen

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

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money. Abigail Van Buren

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

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose. Thomas Edison

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

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family. Mother Teresa

Part of keeping work and life in balance is surrounding yourself with people that have similar aspirations. Damon Dash

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. Marilyn Monroe

I believe in a world where work feels like play, and while it’s not always as easy as I’d like, I try to spend as much time there as possible. Marney K. Makridakis

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

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

You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once. Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

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

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them work, family, health, friends, and spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, and even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. Brian Dyson

A time for everything A time to relax and a time to be busy, a time to frolic and a time to labor, a time to receive and a time to give, a time to begin and a time to finish. Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Work, love and play are the great balance of a man’s being. Orison SwettMarden

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

When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work. Anna Quindlen

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

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. Michael Altshuler

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

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. Jim Rohn

We have overstretched our personal boundaries and forgotten that true happiness comes from living an authentic life fueled with a sense of purpose and balance. Dr. Kathleen Hall

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

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

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

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

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing that he can’t afford to lose. Thomas Edison

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

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Carl Sandburg

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

Life will always get busy. Make time to do the things you love. Lailah Gifty Akita

Reconsider your definitions. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind. Dr. Martin Luther King