Work Life Balance Quotes

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

~ Alain De Botton

Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else.A man had a choice, after all. He devoted his life to his work or to his wife and children and home. It could not be combined; not in this day and age. In this insane world where God was second to income and goodness to wealth.

~ Richard Matheson

A Bombshell wants it all, yet she is beginning to see shecan’t have it all at once.

~ Amber Hurdle

The concept of “work-life balance” is a fleeting idea for a Bombshell. Instead, a focus on work-life success—where her time and energy shifts based on the rotating demands of each area of her life—is far more realistic.

~ Amber Hurdle

You’re probably wondering what the heck I mean by “The Pillars of Your Life”, right? Well this is simple. It’s the things that make your life what it is. The things or people that make you, you. There’s work, family, your hobby, your art, and your traditions. Except, some of us have wonky pillars. Some of us give one pillar too much to hold, and the others not enough. One’s too tall, whilst the others are too small. Therefore we become unstable, and sometimes, everything comes crashing down.

~ S.r. Crawford

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

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Christian culture has too often offered women a push toward contentment that can numb us to our own desires, without offering the tools to discern whether those desires could be good or Holy-Spirit-inspired.

~ Katelyn Beaty

Being a person that others can trust is one of the most sought after qualities in the workplace today. So many leaders and their staff have shown in the recent global financial crisis a lack of trust and integrity amongst themselves and with their clients and other stakeholders.

~ Nigel Cumberland

By leading ourselves effectively, we can learn to lead others as a whole person: mind, body, and spirit.

~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

After staring at the poor in the eyes, my thoughts on how best to help people have dramatically changed.

~ Moutasem Algharati

No, they didn’t have any money, the sea was dangerous and men were lost, but it was a satisfying life in a way people today do not understand. There was a joinery of lives all worked together, smooth in places, or lumpy, but joined. The work and the living you did was the same things, not separated out like today.

~ Annie Proulx

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

~ Alain De Botton

[Clayton] Christensen had seen dozens of companies falter by going for immediate payoffs rather than long-term growth, and he saw people do the same thing. In three hours at work, you could get something substantial accomplished, and if you failed to accomplish it you felt the pain right away. If you spent three hours at home with your family, it felt like you hadn't done a thing, and if you skipped it nothing happened. So you spent more and more time at the office, on high-margin, quick-yield tasks, and you even believed that you were staying away from home for the sake of your family. He had seen many people tell themselves that they could divide their lives into stages, spending the first part pushing forward their careers, and imagining that at some future point they would spend time with their families--only to find that by then their families were gone.

~ Larissa Macfarquhar

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel—a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady

~ H.g. Wells

Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean’s The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it’s the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.

~ Fennel Hudson

If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.

~ Richie Norton

Work is just a part of our Life, not vice versa. So Live life full time, work work, part time.

~ Vikrmn

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.

~ Simon Sinek

The Ice Cream Cone CharmYou Will Never Work A Day Once You Discover A Passion That Makes Your Life Rich & Sweet

~ Viola Shipman

How do I structure my life to be at peace with who I am, & comfortable with what I’m doing & not doing?

~ Elizabeth Grace Saunders

Work for what you want, the pursuit of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not worry about who get the credit or praise of the work done. Continue work to give your best.Your reward may come unexpected.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do all the works you can while you still have the strength to work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can work to create a bright future.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life.

~ Ayn Rand

Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives in order to work for and pay for all this convenience?

~ Colin Beavan

Studies consistently show that happy companies are way more productive, creative and service-oriented than unhappy ones. Therefore, the happy companies will beat the pants off the unhappy ones in the market place. The future of business is happy! It’s inevitable.

~ Alexander Kjerulf

Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It’s about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It’s about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work.

~ Alexander Kjerulf

The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don’t commit to being happy at work, you won’t be. You won’t make the choices that make you happy. You won’t take the actions needed to get there. You won’t change the things that need to change.

~ Alexander Kjerulf

See, happiness at work is an emotion. It comes from inside of you, and like all other emotions it is difficult to define, but inescapable once it’s present. Or not present. Can you define love? Poets have tried for thousands of years and aren’t getting much closer. But when you’re feeling love, you’re acutely aware of it, even though you have no formal definition.

~ Alexander Kjerulf

Seriously: Do you want to spend your working life simply being satisfied? When you look back on 50 years spent in business, do you want to be able to say, “Well, I was satisfied?? No! Make happiness your goal. As in, “Let’s make this a workplace where people are happy to work. As in, “I’ve been working for 50 years now, and it absolutely rocks! To me work is challenging, stimulating and just plain fun.

~ Alexander Kjerulf

You can’t be happy at work every day. No matter how much you love your job, there are still going to be bad days. And that’s cool—it’s always OK to have a bad day at work.

~ Alexander Kjerulf

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

~ Heather Schuck

Perhaps the answer is that it is necessary to slow down, finally giving up on economistic fanaticism and collectively rethink the true meaning of the word “wealth.” Wealth does not mean a person who owns a lot, but refers to someone who has enough time to enjoy what nature and human collaboration place within everyone’s reach. If the great majority of people could understand this basic notion, if they could be liberated from the competitive illusion that is impoverishing everyone’s life, the very foundations of capitalism, would start to crumble (p. 169).

~ Franco Bifo Berardi

Wherever you are, you have to work for your living.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who feel satisfied with their personal lives are more satisfied with their careers and perform better.

~ Michael Hyatt

One’s personal life and work are inseparable.

~ Michael Hyatt

Any decision can be easier if you think carefully about your goals; the dimensions of yourself that are most important to you; your needs and wants; the specific costs and benefits associated with your choices; the commensurability of those choices; and whether certain goals should be sequenced instead of pursued simultaneously to give you a better chance of success. Instead of striving for work–life balance, or even worrying about juggling on the balance beam, use this framework to pursue your life’s work—holistically seeking both success and satisfaction.

~ Eric C. Sinoway

Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.

~ Bob Goff

Don't work for appraisal or appreciation, work for your personal growth

~ Sivaprakash Sidhu