Work Life Balance Quotes

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Careers, Balance, Work And Life

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

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Balance, Needs

  "Encouraging Quotes from Michelle Obama", www.beliefnet.com.

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• 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

  Motivation, Integrity, Glasses

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• 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

  Balance, Important, Family And Friends

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

  Stephen Covey

  Struggle, Men, Challenges

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• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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• There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage.

  Michael Hyatt

  Decision, Challenges, Balance

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• There is no such thing as work-life balance. There is work, there is life, and there is no balance.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Balance, Life Balance, Work And Life 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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  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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• Work-life balance is one of the biggest misconceptions people have.

  Robert Herjavec

  People, Balance, Misconception

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• Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is.

  Evan Williams

  Sleep, Exercise, Long

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• 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

  Thinking, Order, Discipline

  Source: productivemag.com

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• Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.

  Matthew Kelly

  Mistake, Balance, Want

  Matthew Kelly (2011). “Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfact ion”, Penguin

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• Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.

  Sam Altman

  Reality, Choices, Balance

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

  Richard Branson

  People, Balance, Important

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• If you're searching for "work/life balance" you'll always be disappointed because "balance" connotes a zero-sum equation.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Zero, Balance, Equations

  "Stewart D. Friedman on 'Leading the Life You Want'". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 22, 2016.

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• I believe a balanced life is essential, and I try to make sure that all of our employees know that and live that way. It's crucial to me as a manager that I help ensure that our employees are as successful as our customers and partners.

  Marc Benioff

  Business, Believe, Successful

  The 'Sonshi.com' Interview, www.sonshi.com.

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• It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Worry, Stressed

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.303

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• So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard - and even successfully resolved - but not if the boss's needs aren't met as well.

  Jack Welch

  Winning, Thinking, Issues

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• When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'

  Steve Blank

  Father, Balance, Gone

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• I walk out of this office every day at 5:30 so I'm home for dinner with my kids at 6, and interestingly, I've been doing that since I had kids. I did that when I was at Google, I did that here, and I would say it's not until the last year, two years, that I'm brave enough to talk about it publicly. Now I certainly wouldn't lie, but I wasn't running around giving speeches on it." "...there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Life, Running, Lying

  "Sheryl Sandberg Leaves Work at 5:30 Every Day — And You Should Too" by Laura Donovan, mashable.com. April 05, 2012.

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• The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.

  Patrick Dixon

  Work, Thinking, Talking

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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