No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him He gives him for mankind.
—Phillips Brooks (1835–93) American Episcopal Clergyman, Author
Put yourself in the other man’s place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
—Irish Proverb
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 (b.1944) American Author, Motivational Speaker
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated…As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness….No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
—John Donne (1572–1631) English Poet, Cleric
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
—Unknown
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
—Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
—Max Lerner (1902–92) Russian-born American Journalist
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
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 (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
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 Nixon (1913–94) American Head of State, Lawyer
If we would just support each other—that’s ninety percent of the problem.
—Howard Gardner (b.1943) American Cognitive Psychologist
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
—W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American Self-help Guru, Entrepreneur
If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader
It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived
—Ralph Charell
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 (1859–1927) English Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright
Individuals score points, but teams win games.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
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 (1899–1975) American Surgeon, Motivational Writer
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 (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman
Doing things for others always pays dividends…
—Claude M. Bristol (1891–1951) American Journalist, Self-Help Author
If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
—Aesop (620–564 BCE) Greek Fabulist
We do not exist for ourselves…
—Thomas Merton (1915–68) American Trappist Monk
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
—Earl Nightingale (1921–89) American Motivational Speaker, Author
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aarons beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic