Office Quotes

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth. (Epictetus)
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. View quote
Robert Frost
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. View quote
Erma Bombeck
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were. View quote
John F. Kennedy
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. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. View quote
Gloria Steinem
I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. View quote
Peter Ustinov
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. View quote
Aesop
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides. View quote
Harry S. Truman
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. (Deng Xiaoping)
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching? View quote
Harriet Martineau
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. View quote
Herbert Hoover
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. View quote
Charles Lamb
I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it. View quote
Stephen J. Cannell
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume that there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. View quote
David S. Broder
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page. (Bill Clinton)
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained Those by death are few by resignations, none. Usually quoted Few die and none resign. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. View quote
James K. Polk
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savours less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues. View quote
William Hazlitt
📖 Office Proverbs