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Quotes About Balance

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
~ Colin Powell
Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.
~ James Franco
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
~ Alain de Botton
Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.
~ John Wayne
People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.
~ Alice Walker
When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.
~ Joseph Pilates
It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract
~ I. M. Pei
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
~ Josh Billings
Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.
~ John Lennon
All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.
~ Joline Godfrey
My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
~ Mary Oliver
Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job.
~ Christian Slater
You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
~ Stephen Fry
We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.
~ Francis Asbury
For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
~ Jessica Savitch
All work and no play is not good for the soul
~ Felix Sabates
Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards
~ Judith Martin
These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.
~ Paul Harvey
If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you.
~ Baba Hari Dass
Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
~ Edward Bernays
The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.
~ Frank Bettger
To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.
~ Don Shula
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
~ Tertullian