Quotes about cooperation

Union gives strength.

— Aesop

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

— Aesop

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

— Fred A. Allen

Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.

— Greg Anderson

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

— Marvin J. Ashton

Men exist for the sake of one another.

— Marcus Aurelius

Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

— Bible

The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.

— Preston Bradley

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.

— Claude M. Bristol

Doing things for others always pays dividends...

— Claude M. Bristol

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

— Phillips Brooks

If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His daily rounds, he would see below millions of his fellow humans busily hurling themselves into the passions, sports, and action of those around him. But if our observer had the power and omniscience of the Lord, he would also feel and sense, pulsing through and vibrating from every one of us here below, a desperate and unending plea, Notice me! I want to be known admired, and loved by the whole world! And it is this, this glorious weakness, this dependence of ours on each other, that makes some of us usually heroes and fools at the same time.

— Rev. Michael Burry

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

— Mark Caine

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

— Mark Caine

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

— Mark Caine

It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived

— Ralph Charell

I felt compelled to perform -- to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren?t aware how much it carried me through.

— Princess of Wales Diana

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

— John Donne

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

— Albert Einstein

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

— Albert Einstein

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

— Albert Einstein

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is the sky, which is all men's together.

— Euripides

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

— Benjamin Franklin

If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.

— Benjamin Franklin

Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?

— Frederick (Carl) Frieseke

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

— Buckminster Fuller

If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.

— Edward Gardner

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

— Althea Gibson

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

— William Hazlitt

I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today.

— Jessie Hill

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

— Napoleon Hill

In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

— Doug Horton

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

— Elbert Hubbard

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.

— Elton John

No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

— Samuel Johnson

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

— Quincy Jones

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.

— Carl Jung

God does notice us, and He watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs.

— Spencer W. Kimball

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

— King Jr. Martin Luther

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

— Max Lerner

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

— Vince Lombardi

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

— Maxwell Maltz

I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.

— Lone Man

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

— Orison Swett Marden

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

— Paul Mccartney

We do not exist for ourselves...

— Thomas Merton

Come all good people far and near, Oh, come and see what you can hear.

— Julia A. Moore

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

— Earl Nightingale

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -- until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

— Richard M. Nixon

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

— M. Scott Peck

We all end up in a single bed sooner or later.

— Proverb

It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.

— Irish Proverb

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

— Bertrand Russell

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

— Albert Schweitzer

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

— Seneca

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

— William Shakespeare

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

— George Shinn

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

— Samuel Smiles

In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.

— Konstantin Stanislavisky

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

— Ben Stein

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

— W. Clement Stone

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

— Brian Tracy

The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.

— Source Unknown

We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

— Source Unknown

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.

— Source Unknown

We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.

— Jeff Warner

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.

— Oprah Winfrey