About Work: A Theme in Quotations

"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."  - Helen Keller

"The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work." - Robert K. Greenleaf

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." - Woodrow Wilson

"The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.  Job security is gone.  The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!  - Earl Nightingale

"Power is not something that we can bestow on another person. It is something he or she already has within and will struggle to retain. Empowerment means that we acknowledge the personal power each person has to make positive decisions and to take responsibility for them, a simple exercise in treating others with dignity and respect." - Gail Pursell Elliott

"If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve."  - Tony Robbins

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.  - Phyllis Bottome

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.  They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us.  And we must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.  - Audre Lorde

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right,  temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."  - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein 

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. - Harry S. Truman

We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.  - Meg Wheatley