Workplace Quotes

In today’s fast-paced and dynamic world, the workplace is where we spend a significant portion of our lives. Whether you’re striving for success, seeking motivation, or simply looking for a dose of humor to brighten your workday, you’ve come to the right place. We have gathered a diverse selection of quotes that touch upon various aspects of the professional realm – from leadership and teamwork to career development and office culture. These insightful and thought-provoking quotes are here to provide you with the wisdom and inspiration you need to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of your workplace.

Feel free to explore these quotes and use them to uplift your own career journey or share them with your colleagues. You can copy these quotes, pair them with images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to create eye-catching motivational posters or social media posts. Dive into the world of workplace wisdom, and let these quotes be your guiding light in the pursuit of success and happiness in your professional life. Now, without further ado, let’s embark on this enlightening journey through our carefully curated collection of workplace quotes

If you’re just starting out in the workforce, the very best thing you can do for yourself is to get started in your workplace retirement plan. Contribute enough to grab any matching dollars your employer is offering (a.k.a. the last free money on earth). Jean Chatzky

As a Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union, I felt it was ridiculous to expect me to atone for the sins of slavery and segregation, to say nothing of the household drudgery and workplace discrimination suffered by women. Max Boot

Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I’m not saying that’s the only calling card, but it’s a whole crayon box. Barbara Corcoran

Punctuality and showing respect in the workplace are the foundations of success. Success is meaningless without them. I’m always looking to pass these lessons on to younger players, because they are the secret of excelling and developing your game. Raul

Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities. Rob Wittman

If the only reason people are coming in and doing anything in your office is because you’re giving them a paycheck, I’m not sure you have the most productive workplace there. Daniel H. Pink

I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong. Paulina Porizkova

I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention. Matthew Walker

Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it’s not just in the workplace. Adam Grant

It’s 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you’ve finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don’t come off as a slacker. It’s an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace. Robert Pozen

A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there’s very little fear. David Whyte

Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people – but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room. Andrew Weil

I think obviously we need to work harder at extending the women’s movement. How do women who have prepared for careers and have a child get back to the workplace and still fulfill maternal roles? Tom Brokaw

We always had a lot of admiration for feminists who were out there trying to change things for the better for women, who were trying to find equality in the workplace and at home. Nancy Wilson

In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for parents, no universal preschool and minimal safety nets for vulnerable families, making it a crime to offer children independence in effect makes it a crime to be poor. Kim Brooks

It used to be presumed that if you weren’t at your desk working, you weren’t working, But we said, ‘Why can’t we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?’ Sometimes that’s where your better creative work happens. David Chipperfield

Children, who receive the right nutrition early on in life, learn much more effectively when they start school. This in turn has a huge knock-on effect on their ability to thrive in the workplace as an adult. Penny Mordaunt

Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms. Martin Filler

Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like ‘Saturday Night Live’ forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model. Tina Fey

My mom was a single mother in the South Bronx living in adverse conditions. Seeing her struggles to get herself off of welfare and get back into the workplace and give me and my sister a better life – it’s an inspiration for me. Andrea Navedo

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place. Mary Douglas

These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives. Charles Bass

Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It’s not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability. Graham Joyce

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before. Margaret Spellings

We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short. Valerie Jarrett

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books. Hilda Solis

Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers. James P. Hoffa

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer. Carol Bellamy

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers. Tom Peters

Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit. Letitia Baldrige

The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace. Silvia Cartwright

We should aim for every workplace to be a place which encourages good mental health. Luciana Berger

In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry – people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead. Adam Grant

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short. Jay Samit

Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a measure passed to end discrimination against gays in the military. Kitty Kelley

A lot of women will be sort of ‘competitive like a guy’ in the workplace, but then when they go home, they realize that’s not fully authentic for them. They would like to have a more expansive or more authentic relationship in the workplace around competition. Michael Gurian

It’s important to reflect upon how far we’ve come in achieving gender equality in the workplace and how we could move faster toward even greater goals. Julie Sweet

The 60s was nuclear for women. New laws gave them stronger standing in both marriage and divorce. They went back into the workplace so had their own money, and the pill spurred a sexual revolution that they needed to dress appropriately for. Dawn O’Porter

It’s perfectly clear that 99 per cent of people know the difference between appropriate and inappropriate behaviour in the workplace. Julia Hartley-Brewer

The emotional magnets beneath home and workplace are in the process of being reversed. Work has become a form of ‘home’ and home has become ‘work.’ Arlie Russell Hochschild

Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women – from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace. Gloria Steinem

It’s a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting. Elisabeth Moss

A workplace that encourages self-awareness is an environment where the most productive, curious, and innovative people thrive. Neil Blumenthal

Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace. Marcus Buckingham

In Germany, apprentices undergo a final examination in the vocational school and an oral examination and practical test in the workplace. The same should happen in Britain. Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I’m friends with a lot of actresses, but my ‘SNL’ friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there’s a deep connection for having survived that workplace. Ana Gasteyer

People have told me, ‘You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ’cause it’s the workplace,’ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right. Stephen Curry

Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there. Travis Kalanick

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. Meg Whitman

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process – in dismissal. Nigel Rees

I support workplace clean air. But a federal ban on smoking would mean that you couldn’t smoke in your own home. I don’t care what people do in their home. Mike Huckabee

We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace. John Sweeney

Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female’s success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon. Mika Brzezinski

Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back. Tim Bishop

It’s difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is where seafarers live, is their workplace, it’s where they live, it’s where they relax, it’s everything, and it’s just hard to get away. And seafarers often refer to their job as being in prison with a salary. Rose George

It’s hard to keep family life and workplace separated. Monique Lhuillier

We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards. John Hutton

We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives. Les Brown

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure. Daniel Kahneman

I had the luxury of skipping the cabinet meeting to attend my daughter’s graduation. So many people don’t have the luxury of taking an hour away from the workplace to attend indispensable family commitments. We have to change that dynamic. Tom Perez

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‘Mad Men’ episode. Barack Obama

Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted. Alexis Herman

We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave. David Lammy

The best antidote to poverty remains simple – a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet. Madeleine M. Kunin

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That’s part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it’s all on loan. Mary Schmich

If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally. Mehmet Oz

I spend so much of my day at work. I would like to have the workplace be part of a healthier strategy. Reminding me more about walking the steps rather than taking that elevator. Not just promoting healthier food in the cafeteria, but providing information on healthier choices. I use it when I look at the alternatives. Harvey V. Fineberg

Let’s face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don’t do. Warren Farrell

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people. Jesse Schell

The great thing about ‘The Office’ and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it’s mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace. Rainn Wilson

I was forced to learn a lot about psychology as a player, and as a captain to get the best out of others. There’s still a lot of scepticism about it in sport and the workplace, but dealing with fluctuations of form, and pressure, and being away from home are more important than your cover-drive. Andrew Strauss

I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end. Paula Jones

The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost. Eric Schneiderman

I think the biggest issue for women in the workplace is men! Wendy Williams

I think ‘Dilbert’ will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. ‘Dilbert’ is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened. Scott Adams

We will never achieve equality in the workplace until we have more equality in the home. Our plans for an extra four weeks of parental leave specifically for fathers will help tackle the assumption that parenting is one of the ‘girl jobs’. Jo Swinson

Men are very competent in their workplace – and this is going to sound sexist – women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing. Patricia Heaton

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a pioneer and a role model for women across America. She is the reason women like me not only believed we had a right to be in the workplace, but were guaranteed it. She won us equality, and then showed us how to succeed. Mikie Sherrill

On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space. Alain de Botton

There have been some gains made in terms of more equality for women in the workplace and in the way the legal system deals with issues of violence against women. Tracy Chapman

Community colleges are one of America’s great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. Barbara Mikulski

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace. W. Edwards Deming

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society. Blanche Lincoln

I like to have a simple workplace. Rick Riordan

We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford. Carolyn Maloney

In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options. Geoffrey Canada

A film set is a workplace for me; it’s my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment. Park Chan-wook

People are responsible adults at home. Why do we suddenly transform them into adolescents with no freedom when they reach the workplace? Ricardo Semler

Each day, we’re sharpening Iowa’s competitive edge in education and expanding our workplace partnerships with job-ready, STEM savvy, lifelong learners. Kim Reynolds

Patriotism is not an abstract concept. It begins from one’s own home. It buds out from the love for one’s parents, spouses and children, the love for one’s own home, village and workplace, and further develops into the love for one’s country and fellow people. Kim Jong-un

The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their energy into achieving minuscule policy changes relating to workplace efficiency, gender or race. Amity Shlaes

And that’s actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we’re able to work with thousands and thousands more students. Dave Eggers

Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a ‘leisure gap’ between them at home. Most women work one shift in the office or factory and a ‘second shift’ at home. Arlie Russell Hochschild

Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed. Eli Broad

Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates. Tim Walberg

Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up. Billy Connolly

Women process stress differently. If we can change the workplace culture to make it more welcoming for women, we’re also going to improve behavior, and we’re going to improve outcomes. Arianna Huffington

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you! Joyce Meyer

The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother’s or the father’s work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it. Eric Braeden

Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism. Dalton McGuinty

Anton Usov

I am Anton Usov, an educator with a passion for quotes that resonate with the human experience. Over many years, I have curated a collection that reflects wisdom and emotions across time. Join me in exploring the power of words to inspire and enlighten our paths.

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