Fellow Workers Quotes

• Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Responsibility, Top Management

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.8, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.

  Fidel Castro

  People, Giving, Revolution

  "Playa Giron/Bay of Pigs: Washington's First Military Defeat in the Americas" by José Ramón Fernández, (p. 58), 2001.

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• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.

  Daniel Webster

  Mind, Intellectual, Theatre

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.131, Beard Books

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• ... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Work, Annoyed, Wages

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• the point of educating instead of blaming seems to me very important. For nothing stultifies one more than being blamed. Moreover, if the question is, who is to blame?, perhaps each will want to place the blame on someone else, or on the other hand, someone may try to shield his fellow-worker. In either case the attempt is to hide the error and if this is done the error cannot be corrected.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Errors, Hands

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your neighbors... to your fellow workers... to the people who work where you eat and shop... break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared.

  Harvey Milk

  Brother, Lying, Gay

  "That's What America Is". Harvey Milk's speech given on Gay Freedom Day in San Francisco, June 25, 1978.

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• It is much easier to do something than to trust in God. That is why there are so few fellow workers with God and so many workers for Him. We would far rather work for God than believe in Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Believe, Trust In God, Easier

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

  Dorothy Day

  Prayer, Giving, Special

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• God places us in the world as his fellow workers-agents of transfiguration. We work with God so that injustice is transfigured into justice, so there will be more compassion and caring, that there will be more laughter and joy, that there will be more togetherness in God's world.

  Desmond Tutu

  Faith, Laughter, Caring

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• I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.

  Albert Einstein

  Appreciation, Mean, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.21, St. Martin's Press

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• Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Country, Work

  "Along Broadway: The Edison Musical Magazine".

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• There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness - her selfishness, in short - is a reproach to the American way of life.

  Erica Jong

  Peace, Men, Selfishness

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the Government, every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Cost Of Living, Government, People

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• People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice.

  Stephen R. Gregg

  Commitment, Sacrifice, People

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• In a community of human beings working together, the well-being of the community will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of the work he has himself done; i.e., the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow workers, and the more his own requirements are satisfied, not out of his own work done, but out of work done by the others.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Community, Working Together, Done

  Rudolf Steiner (1997). “Temple Legend”, p.371, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Views, May

  Philip Yancey (2007). “Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? Six Sessions on Our Relationship With God”, p.96, Zondervan

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• You should accordingly exercise your mind to remember your friends, relatives, and fellow-workers to determine if they are in need. As you remember each one so shall you in turn intercede for them. If in interceding on their behalf your spirit remains cold and dry, then you know you are not to pray for them.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Exercise, Mind

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.584, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Children, Grandmother, Special

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• You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Laughter, Caring, Perfect

  University of Michigan Wallenberg Lecture, October 29, 2008.

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