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Quotes About Balance

When I'm with a man, my work takes second place - all I really want to do is get through the day so I can rush home to be with him. That's because my man is the most important part of my life.
~ Linda Evans
Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.
~ Mason Cooley
I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.
~ Mason Cooley
Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.
~ Mason Cooley
You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Women's work is always toward wholeness.
~ May Sarton
I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
~ Michael Caine
There's no work-life balance without making decisions and without courage.
~ Michael Hyatt
I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.
~ Michelle Forbes
For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.
~ Miranda Kerr
Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.
~ Miranda Otto
Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.
~ Mother Teresa
I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
~ Naomi Campbell
Working out, for me, is sort of a meditation.
~ Unknown
I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.
~ Norah O'Donnell
Justice is not always an open and shut case - sometimes we have to work for it. If you want peace, you must work for justice.
~ Pope Paul VI
I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.
~ Reese Witherspoon
The key to getting work done on time is to stop wearing a watch.
~ Ricardo Semler
The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.
~ Robert Grudin
To reduce stress, avoid excitement. Spend more time with your spouse.
~ Robert Orben
Negatively correlated assets tend to work in harmony in a way that people are generally not used to seeing.
~ Roy Niederhoffer
A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.
~ Russell Sherman
There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I'm not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that's it.
~ Scarlett Johansson