Life Balance Quotes

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

  Jack Welch

  Choices, Balance, Consequence

  "Bloomberg discrimination decision loaded against work-life balance" by Janice D'Arcy, www.washingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.

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• Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

  Rumi

  Letting Go, Balance, Holding On

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• 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

  Life, Success, Peace

  "A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying". Book by Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, December 9, 2004.

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• Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

  Stephen Covey

  Struggle, People, Goal

  "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

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• Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "No Man is an Island".

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  I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• 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

  Life, Wise, Power

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• 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

  Life, Dance, Thinking

  All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988)

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• Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Real

  Barbara De Angelis (1995). “Real Moments”, Dell

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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

  Alain de Botton

  Fighting, Balance, Work And Life

  Twitter post from Oct 14, 2015

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

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Life, Balance

  Twitter post from Aug 09, 2010

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• Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Men

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

  John Wooden

  Balance, Busy, Forget

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Hard Work

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Priorities In Life, Important

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Success, Self Esteem

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• To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

  Nido R Qubein

  Mean, Desire, Balance

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

  Hillary Clinton

  Careers, Balance, Work And Life

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• Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Successful, Balance And Harmony, Joy

  "A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying". Book by Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, December 9, 2004.

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

  Jessye Norman

  People, Relaxation, Balance

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• Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Men, Play, Balance

  Orison Swett Marden (1918). “Love's Way”

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• 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

  Sleep, People, Balance

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