Have you heard the latest office gossip? Every office, corporation or workplace has it. A steady flow of juicy gossip filled with rumor, conjecture and wild speculation. But if you want to be happy on the job, you need avoid this kind of talk.

Participating in office gossip is tempting but very destructive. The Bible is filled with warnings to avoid it. James 4:11 says, “Speak not evil of one another.” And Proverbs 17:9 says, “He who covers over an offense promotes love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.”

Refuse to participate in gossip in the workplace and you’ll earn the respect and trust of everyone around you.

-Mac Hammond

“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.”
– Josh Billings

“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.”

– Barry Goldwater

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”

– Lawrence Clark Powell

“I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.”

– Paul Harvey

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years of trying to get other people interested in you.”

-Dale Carnegie

“Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A leader must be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

-Steve Jobs

“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

-Henry Ford

“Whatever I have tried to do in my life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well. Whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely.”

-Charles Dickens