Office quotes are inspiring. An office is a place where you should feel at home, the desk you sit on should be a place you make yours. Comfort is important when it comes to working, you need to have a comfortable seat, all the equipment to do your work, and most importantly your surrounding needs to be tidy and homely. Working in an office is a luxury, compared to other jobs that are heavy manual labor, so you need to consider yourself lucky and blessed.
50 Office Quotes
- “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” Alexander Graham Bell
- “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” Dolly Parton, singer
- “His insomnia was so bad, he couldn’t sleep during office hours.” Arthur Baer
- “Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team.” Emily Chang
- “If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” John Gotti
- “Make today your masterpiece.” John Wooden
- “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” Douglas Adams
- “It is a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it is a depression when you lose yours.” Harry S. Truman
- “Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” Swami Sivananda
- “The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.” Oscar Wilde
- “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” Jim Rohn
- “When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.” Anna Quindlen, author
- “Tell your boss what you really think about him and the truth shall set you free.” Patrick Murray
- “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” Aesop
- “People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” Elbert Hubbard
- “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”Steve Jobs
- “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.” Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids
- “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the real greats make you feel that you, too, can be great.” Mark Twain
- “Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.” Luther Campbell
- “Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? ” Edgar Bergen
- “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Edison
- “No one on his deathbed ever said, ‘I wish I had spent more time at the office.” Paul Tsongas
- “Any organization is like a septic tank. The really big chunks rise to the top.” John Imhoff
- “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” Bill Gates
- “I find that the harder I work, the less I call it work.” Thomas Jefferson
- “I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” Jerome K. Jerome
- “The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” Robert Frost
- “No great achiever even those who made it seem easy ever succeeded without hard work.” Jonathan Sacks
- “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” Aristotle
- “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” Dale Carnegie
- “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
- “I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth–even if it costs him his job.” Samuel Goldwyn
- “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” David Hume
- “Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.” Peter Drucker
- “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” Seth Godin
- “I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” Charles Lamb
- “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Edison
- “Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.” Bette Davis
- “Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.” Denis Waitley
- “Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.” Tyler Perry
- “You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.” Zig Ziglar
- “People are still willing to do an honest day’s work. The trouble is they want a week’s pay for it.” Joey Adams
- “Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.” Erma Bombeck
- “No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early.” Groucho Marx
- “If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” Ray Kroc
- “All happiness depends on courage and work.” Honoré de Balzac
- “I work for myself, which is fun. Except for the time when I call in sick, I always know that I am lying.” Rita Rudner
- “If work was so good, the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.” David Brent
- “Do your best with what you have where you are.” Lucy Punch
