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 Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator
Men exist for the sake of one another. Either teach them or bear with them.
—Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
—Max Lerner (1902–92) American Journalist, Educator, Author
There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
—Mark Caine
There is the sky, which is all men’s together.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men-above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. My peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of other men.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
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
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
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
Individuals score points, but teams win games.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
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
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
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, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
—Irish Proverb
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
We all end up in a single bed sooner or later.
—Common Proverb
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American Head of State, Military Leader
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 Allen (1894–1956) American Comedian, Radio Personality
For every one of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
Doing things for others always pays dividends…
—Claude M. Bristol (1891–1951) American Journalist, Self-Help Author
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 (b.1942) English Pop Singer, Songwriter
Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
—Marvin J. Ashton (1915–94) American Religious Leader, Author
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
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 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
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 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 (1895–1983) American Inventor, Philosopher
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
—Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) British Author, Reformer
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
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