Office Quotes

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

Morning, Brain, Working

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson

Men, Ambition, Painful

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
Thomas Jefferson

Religion, Opinion, Difference

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Easy, Second

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

Success, Leadership, Integrity

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Al Capp

Work, Anyone, Walk

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy

Bad, Saying, Find

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heart, Nothing, Christian

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Shirley MacLaine

Love, Drunk, Person

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.
Confucius

Yourself, May, Known

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Phyllis Diller

Christmas, Job, Looking

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard Shaw

War, Soldier, Stand

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard Shaw

Care, Trial, Conception

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma Bombeck

Doctor, Died, Whose

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
Andrew Jackson

Successful, Corruption, Country

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Barack Obama

Waiting, Big, Debt

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt

Between, Stealing, Civilized

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

Hate, Honesty, Sense

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West

Virtue, Reward, Box

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

Great, Public, Thieves

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H. L. Mencken

Money, Great, Lost

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.
Johnny Depp

Care, Less, Movie

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack Obama

Success, Politics, Remember

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
Aldous Huxley

Country, Dignity, Importance

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen

America, Year, Takes

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke

History, Death, Character

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
Clint Eastwood

Good, Mind, Job

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin Coolidge

Politics, Men, Show

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.
Mitt Romney

Government, Making, Market

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
Mitt Romney

Learning, Sports, Start

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