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
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
HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose
—Ken Blanchard (b.1939) American Author, Management Expert
We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
—Unknown
Help thyself, and God will help thee.
—George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we’ve got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.
—Jackie Robinson (1919–72) American Baseball Player
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
—Unknown
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
—Ben Stein (b.1944) American Writer, Actor, Commentator
There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American Historian, Political Leader, Explorer
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
There is nothing wrong in using people. The successful person never uses people except to their advantage.
—Mark Caine
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
—Anonymous
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
—Herman Melville (1819–91) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Poet
If my daughter, Liza, wants to become an actress, I’ll do everything to help her.
—Judy Garland (1922–69) American Actress, Singer
He that does good to another, does good also to himself, not only in the consequences, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well doing is, in itself, ample reward.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
—Max Lerner (1902–92) American Journalist, Educator, Author
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
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
There is the sky, which is all men’s together.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
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 (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required — not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
—John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist
We do not exist for ourselves…
—Thomas Merton (1915–68) American Trappist Monk
We all end up in a single bed sooner or later.
—Common Proverb
There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
—Mark Caine
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
—Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic
This is Democratic bedrock: we don’t let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor’s car won’t start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one…
—Garrison Keillor (b.1942) American Author, Humorist, Radio Personality
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
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