Workplace Safety Motivational Quotes & Sayings

The accountants who spent ten hours a day copying out numbers were, to my mind, victims sacrificed on the altar of a divinity wholly bereft of either greatness or mystery. These humble creatures were devoting their entire lives to a reality beyond their grasp. In days gone by they might have at least believed there was some purpose to their servitude. Now they no longer had any illusions. They were giving up their lives for nothing, and they knew it.
Everyone knows that Japan has the highest suicide rate of any country in the world. What surprised me was that suicides were not more common. — Amelie Nothomb

O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war,
Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar? — Walter Scott

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. — Bill Gates

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960. — Sanjeev Bhaskar

I happened to observe a mother lifting her eight-year-old boy in her arms. As she did so she laughed and said, "You're getting so big you'll be lifting me soon." It was the simplest of statements. Yet I felt something transiently touching about the scene merely because millions upon millions of mothers reaching back into the dawn of history must have said the same thing to their children at some time and because other millions will say it in the remote future long — Leo Tolstoy

The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We are really devastated and very impotent right now. A photographer just working for an advertising company has a platform to be much more politically effective in the world than an artist. — Jeff Koons

It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples. — Aimee Bender

But I still remained paralyzed by indecision, reluctance, and endless second-guessing ... — Emily Giffin

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. — Carl Sagan

One of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That's just not true. — Dick Cheney

It's bad enough that your happiness is conditional upon your own behavior. When you start making it conditional upon other people's behavior, you're in serious trouble. — Anonymous

Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul. — Brian Johnson