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Quotes About Balance

When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.
~ Vince Vaughn
If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.
~ W. S. Merwin
At each stage of work the horse must be taken to his limit, but never over.
~ Walter Zettl
After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.
~ Warren Farrell
Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
~ Wayne Brady
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.
~ Wendell Berry
It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.
~ William Dean Howells
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.
~ William Feather
I'm getting bigger roles, and I'm on location more, and I have a wife and family. I'd rather work less, and I've started to implement that. It was either that or my wife would break my heart.
~ William H. Macy
Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.
~ William J. Clinton
It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.
~ William James
I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.
~ William Monahan
I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.
~ William P. Young
But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
~ William Penn
Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.
~ William Penn
I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.
~ Winona Ryder
I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.
~ Yani Tseng
I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.
~ Yoko Ono
[I'm] looking for a good balance between digital and creative work.
~ Unknown
It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to that luxury.
~ Yukimi Nagano
Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
~ Zachary Knighton
If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.
~ Zoe Leonard
I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.
~ Zoe Tapper