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Best Coworker Quotes

These coworker quotes employ Optimal Thinking, the language of our best self. As the coronavirus sweeps the globe, keep in mind that when the cost of failure is high, optimism is the wrong strategy. Optimal Thinking enables us to take the most constructive actions to achieve the best outcome and best prepare for the worst outcome.

This realistic style of thinking generates the best choices and empowers individuals and organizations to do their best. Feel free to visit our store to find a gift for your coworker on sale today. Please share these quotes on social media.

"Do the best job and you'll never have any competition."

Christopher Casey
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"Your main job in this life is to be your best self."

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"Every situation - even a disaster - is an opportunity to be your best."

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"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."

Barbara Bush,
Former First Lady, U.S
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"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."

James Allen
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"Always do your best. Don't stop just because someone doesn't give you credit."

Mary Rosen
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"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."

Oscar Wilde
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"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."

Hesiod,
8th Century B.C.
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"If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come."

Lawrence Welk
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Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances."

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"When you have choices, choose the best. When you believe you have no choice, do your best."

Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.,
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"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It's the only thing."

Albert Schweitzer
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"The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society."

Jack Kemp
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"Excellence -- moral, ethical, personal excellence -- is worth whatever it costs."

Charles Swindoll
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"All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen."

Seth Godin,
Best-selling author
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"Ideas are any man's greatest asset."

Harvey Firestone
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"The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted."

Elizabeth Dole
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"As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given."

Mary Lou Retton
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"Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things."

Peter F. Drucker
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"When you discover and embrace your career purpose, you honor your soul's calling."

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"Consider what could happen if you committed yourself to focusing on what is right with yourself, others, and the world."

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"To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!"

Lao Tsu
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Stephen R. Covey

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

Stephen R. Covey,
Best-selling author
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If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way."

Linda Ellerbee
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"Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself."

Thomas Carlyle
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"If I were asked to give what I consider the most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'"

Ann Landers
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W. Somerset Maugham

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

W. Somerset Maugham
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"The most respectful attitude you can offer someone is your unconditional interest."

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"Choose the best, then put the issue to rest."

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"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."

Harvey Firestone
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"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."

Pablo Picasso
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Farooq Kathwari

"I strongly believe that the responsibility of leadership is to shape the debate -- to practice and project the right attributes -- whether in a business enterprise, in our society, and even in our religions."

Farooq Kathwari,
CEO, Ethan Allen
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Mahatma Gandhi, peace activist

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

Mahatma Gandhi
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"When resolving conflict, consider which alternatives best meet the needs of those involved."

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"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

Alexander Graham Bell
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"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on."

Walter Lippman
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Theodore Roosevelt,
U.S. President (1901 - 1909)
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"Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."

Pearl S. Buck
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"By honoring feelings, thoughts, and motives, we establish our most rewarding connections."

Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D.
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“Often times, the brightest rainbows follow the darkest rainstorms.”

Janice Dean
Senior Meteorologist, Fox News Channel
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"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."

John R. Wooden
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"The greatest gift you can give to others is unconditional love and acceptance."

Brian Tracy
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"The team with the best players wins."

Jack Welch
Former CEO, GE
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"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

Buddha
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"Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find the happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

Dale Carnegie
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"The highest of distinctions is service to others."

King George VI
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"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."

Napoleon Hill
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"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited."

Napoleon Hill
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“The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”

John Ruskin
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"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

Mark Twain
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"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

Vince Lombardi
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"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves."

Earl Nightingale
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"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition."

Elbert Hubbard
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"The wisest mind has something yet to learn'"

George Santayana
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