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Quotes About Balance

I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.
~ Gregory Harrison
So I delegate a lot and I make my family come first, my husband and our kids.
~ Kelly Preston
I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.
~ John C. McGinley
Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.
~ Lorna Luft
It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.
~ James Ellis
It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
~ Steven Spielberg
Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves.
~ Veronica Roth
I would never put my job before my family.
~ Savannah Guthrie
I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own personal wishes, but they're not always front and center.
~ Maria Shriver
Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.
~ Mary Docter
Vulnerability and me go hand and hand now. I try to put myself first so that I can take care of my family so I try not to fight vulnerability as much now.
~ A. J. McLean
Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.
~ Laozi
I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.
~ Jonathan Rhys Meyers
I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.
~ Ashley Johnson
There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.
~ Frederick Lenz
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I get to do some kind of artwork almost everyday and it just so happens that I can pay the bills and support my family while doing it.
~ William Webb
I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.
~ Celine Dion
I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.
~ Cat Stevens
When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.
~ Sophie Ellis Bextor
My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.
~ Mel Gibson
I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all.. darkest surrender
~ Gena Showalter
I used to feel competitive about a career, but now the only things I'm really passionate about are my family, the environment and Indians.
~ Robert Redford