Quotes About Unity

The key ingredient to stardom is the team.

We are many, but are we much?

Next to love, balance is the most important thing.

happier. The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

He told me that he always insisted on two things above all else in his players: That they were always trying to improve and always willing to put the team above themselves. If they weren't willing to do those things, he didn't want them at UCLA.

You're just as good as anyone, but you're no better than anybody.

The two qualities of Friendship so important for a leader to possess and instill in team members are respect and camaraderie.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

EXPLAIN TO EACH TEAM MEMBER PRECISELY HOW HIS OR HER CONTRIBUTIONS CONNECT TO THE WELFARE AND SUCCESS OF THE ENTIRE ORGANIZATION

The Star of the Team Is the Team.

Insist that Members of Your Team Share the "Ball"—Information, Ideas, and More.

Never believe you're better than anybody else, but remember that you're just as good as everybody else.

Seek Players Who Will Make the Best Team Rather Than the Best Players.

Organizations Succeed When They Become More Than the Sum of Their Players. That's one of the real tests of any leader, making the whole more than the sum of its parts. No team will consistently succeed unless the leader is able to achieve this critical goal.

I told players at UCLA that we, as a team, are like a powerful car. Maybe a Bill Walton or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or Michael Jordan is the big engine, but if one wheel is flat, we're going no place. And if we have brand new tires but the lug nuts are missing, the wheels come off. What good is the powerful engine now? It's no good at all.

there would be times when we disagreed but there would never be times when we had to be disagreeable.

My Favorite Four-Letter Words: "Kids" and "Love

For the strength of the pack is the wolf; and the strength of the wolf is the pack." —Rudyard Kipling

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself for the group, for the good of the group — that's teamwork.

Getting your people to think "Team First" is vital. It starts when you teach each member of the group how she or he contributes to the organization, when you make each one feel connected to the team's efforts, productivity, and ultimate success.

Scrooge is no Marley, and Marley is no Scrooge, and their partnership is the better for it.

there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything...

a person comes from God and goes back to God, I think, for the body is conceived and born, it grows and declines, it dies and vanishes, but the spirit is a unity of body and soul, the way form and content are an invisible unity in a good picture...

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.