Quotes About Unity

Gar manches Herz verschwebt im Allgemeinen, Doch widmet sich das edelste dem Einen.

Nur wo du bist sei alles, immer kindlich, So bist du alles, bist unüberwindlich.

Stupid that everyone in his case Is praising his particular opinion! If Islam means submission to God, We all live and die in Islam.

Estamos reunidos en la feliz hora, desempeñe cada quien su trabajo, cada uno cumpla con su obligación y una felicidad colectiva disolverá los pesares de cada quien al igual que la desgracia de todos consume las alegrías de cada uno.

The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.

People learn together by working together. Don't waste time on fake team-building activities such as anything physical. Those activities might be fun for some people, but they don't help people learn how to work together at work.

Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others.

A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

The words human and humane both come from the same Latin root, humus, the earth that bears us, to which we all return and on which we are asked to walk together in humility during the time that is ours.

Holding hands together with my family and fellow travelers as the earth circled our little star coursing through the heavens, I felt two things more profoundly perhaps than ever before: We are one, and we are blessed.

The universalism I aspire to does neither. It holds that the same light shines through all our windows, but that each window is different.

Upon finishing this parable, Buddha said to the seekers who had been quarreling over the nature of God and the afterlife, "How can you be so sure of what you cannot see? We all are like unsighted people in this world. We cannot see God. Nor can we know what is going to happen after we die. Each one of you may be partly right in your answers. Yet none of you is fully right. Let us not quarrel over what we cannot be sure of.

If God is inside us, our neighbor is inside us as well, not only inside us, but also among us, between us, intertwined with us, never apart.

The structure of a jazz performance is, like that of the New York skyline, a tension of cross-purposes. In jazz at its characteristic best, each player seems to be—and has the sense of being—on his own. Each goes his own way, inventing rhythmic and melodic patterns which, superficially, seem to have as little relevance to one another as the United Nations building does to the Empire State. And yet the outcome is a dazzlingly precise creative unity.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.

This irrational healing process, which finds a way around seemingly insurmountable obstacles, has a particularly feminine quality to it. It is the rational, logical masculine mind that declares that opposites like ego and Shadow, light and dark, can never be united. However, the feminine spirit is capable of finding a synthesis where logic says none can be found.

In the harsh conditions of Arabia it was necessary for leaders and followers to live and work together side by side. Therefore leadership was never hierarchical. A leader was among the people, not over them. p 58

The price of excellence in teamwork is eternal vigilance

Instinctively, a common feeling exists that "United we stand, divided we fall", that good relationship, desirable in themselves, are also an essential means towards the shared end.

Work groups and organization come into being because there is a task to be done that is too big for one person

Ten soldiers wisely led, Will beat a hundred without a head Euripides (fifth century BC)

We know now that someone in a leadership role has three core and overlapping functions: to achieve the tasks, to hold a group together as a unity, and to meet individual needs.

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country.