Office Work Quotes

• The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Jobs

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• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

  Denis Waitley

  Fathers Day, Work, Careers

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• I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

  Charles Lamb

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

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• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Do your best with what you have where you are.

  Lucy Punch

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Work, Humorous

  Three Men in a Boat ch. 15 (1889)

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• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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  Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 12, 2016

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• Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

  Edgar Bergen

  Funny, Business, Work

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984) See Modern Proverbs 41

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• Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Work

  Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

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• Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

  Don Herold

  Work, Procrastination, Laughing

  Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”

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• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Work, Stress

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

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  By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

  George Washington Carver

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

  Howard Aiken

  Life And Love, Business, Congratulations

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hipster

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• Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

  Robert Orben

  Inspirational, Funny, Good Morning

  "Hitting Your Peak: Financial Strength" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

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• There's no business like show business.

  Irving Berlin

  Business, Berlin, Shows

  Title of song (1946)

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Science, Ideas

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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  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

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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