You found our list of happy work-life balance quotes.
Work-life balance quotes are words used to encourage satisfaction across work and life. Examples include: “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton and, “If you don’t have time for a break, you definitely need a break!” – Dominique Andersen. The purpose of these sayings is to counteract burnout in the workplace and establish clear boundaries around work so that employees live well-rounded lives.
These quotes give work-life balance tips and remote work-life balance tips. These sayings are a subset of motivational quotes for work and HR quotes.
This list includes:
- Famous work-life balance quotes
- Funny work-life balance quotes
- Family and work-life balance quotes
- Healthy work-life balance quotes
- Self-care and work-life balance quotes
Here we go!
Famous work-life balance quotes
- “I’ve learned that you can’t have everything and do everything at the same time” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.” – Harriet Braiker
- “We’re totally guilty of doing too much at once, all while trying to manage the noise in our heads that says we’re not doing enough.” – Vanessa Autrey
- “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton
- “I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less.” – Anna Quindlen
- “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
- “No is a complete sentence.” – Anne Lamont
Funny work-life balance quotes
- “If you don’t have time for a break, you definitely need a break!” – Dominique Andersen
- “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes… including you.” – Anne Lamott
- “Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” – Edgar Bergen
- “If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.” – Dave Barry
- “I’m currently out of the office and can be reached by waiting until I get back.” – Anonymous
- “I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” – Jerome K. Jerome
- “No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early.” – Groucho Marx
Family and work-life balance quotes
- “You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life.” – Heather Schuck
- “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” – Mother Teresa
- “You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.” – Ellen Gilchrist
- “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
- “Children learn to smile from their parents.” – Shinichi Suzuki
- “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
- “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
- “I don’t like the word ‘balance.’ To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family… as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration… of work, family, self, community.” – Padmasree Warrior
Healthy work-life balance quotes
- “You can’t do a good job if your job is all you do.” – Katie Thurms
- “The wise rest at least as hard as they work.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “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 Harris
- “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” – Stephen Covey
- “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “Your work isn’t simply your job description, title, or industry. It’s when you wake up, what you wear, and your first 30 minutes in the office. It’s what your office is or is not, the five people you are physically closest to, and whether you can get up and walk or have to sit all day. It’s whether you fear for your job due to changing laws or innovation each day. It’s how it fits with your family and all the people and events that matter most. It’s the person you are when you come home.” – Evan Thomsen
- “If you have no health, then you have no business.” – George Choy
- “Compassionate ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They’re compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.” – Brené Brown
Self-care and work-life balance quotes
- “Cars and decision makers, both need a service break, for better performance and long life.” – Harjeet Khanduja
- “Stress is the trash of modern life. We all generate it, but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.” – Danzae Pace
- “Burnout is the result of too much energy output and not enough energy self-invested. In other words, it’s burning too much fuel than you’ve put in your tank.” – Melissa Steginus
- “If you feel ‘burnout’ setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself.” – Dalai Lama
- “You either walk inside your own story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.” – Brené Brown
- “Always take some of the play, fun, freedom, and wonder of the weekend into your week and your work.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- “Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.” – Douglas Pagels
- “We have never been taught how to relax, how to take care of ourselves in a positive, nurturing way (not just going on a vacation or out for an expensive dinner). Twenty minutes of deep relaxation a day will aid your mental growth, improve your physical health and emotional stability.” – L. Johnson Mason
Final Thoughts
The quotes on this list are here to ignite the conversation on what it means to slow down and access your priorities within your life and place of work. Here at Teambuilding, we encourage each other to always take care of ourselves, pause and take a break, and continue our education outside of these virtual walls. This attention to wellbeing makes it so that we show up to our jobs having more of a full life outside of Teambuilding and therefore, less resentment and exhaustion so we can do our jobs effectively. These phrases will have a beneficial impact if you’re trying to change your company culture to slow down and regroup, learning how to encourage others to set boundaries, and setting the tone for a healthy work environment.
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Grace He
