Office Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old office quotes, office sayings, and office proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Vince Lombardi
Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. Amelia Earhart
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Babe Ruth
Either you run the day or the day runs you. Jim Rohn
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Les Brown
If you want to life yourself up, life up someone else. Booker T. Washington
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. Chinese Proverb
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. Beverly Sills
You become what you believe. Oprah Winfrey
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. Farrah Gray
Dream big and dare to fail. Norman Vaughan
To better the world is to better yourself. Joseph Julius Bonkowski
Work to live, not live to work. Joseph Julius Bonkowski
Home is home, work is work, please know the difference. Joseph Julius Bonkowski
A working hand holds a hand full of money, and a lazy hand needs a hand out. Joseph Julius Bonkowski
Help yourself to knowledge, happiness, envy, fear, fun or nothing, but it is you who must help yourself. Joseph Julius Bonkowski
Work imparts dignity and therefore makes one feel good about him or herself. Bob Weinstein
Work is a social environment where we learn to interact with others and collaborate as a team to accomplish the tasks at hand. Bob Weinstein
Work has the purpose of providing what is needed for food and a place to stay. Bob Weinstein
There may be times when we become unemployed which can have a devastating psychological impact. Bob Weinstein
Facing the work place with an attitude of wanting to help your employer and co-workers is the kind of employee that employers are looking for. Bob Weinstein
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Terry Pratchett
I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means. Joseph Conrad
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. Ralph Waldo Emerson