Quotes About Cooperation

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

Working with others makes us much more than we could ever become alone

We cannot stand alone. With 80 million people in this world of today, you cannot, when you just stand on your own, achieve much even though you may be economically strong.

I worked with a lot of different, amazing people, but I was always like, "Dude, I'm sorry, you're going to have to trust me, we've got to do it this way!"

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

There is a use for everyone.

The theologian William E. Hull, worrying over the destructive animosities that divide religious organizations, asked, "How can we avoid the wrangling that breeds hostility?" And he answered: "By seeking clarity rather than victory" (Beyond the Barriers, p. 169).

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

Except to the insane narrow-mindedness of industrial economics, selfishness does not pay.

We explain by means of purely intellectual processes, but we understand by means of the cooperation of all the powers of the mind in comprehension. In understanding we start from the connection of the given, living whole, in order to make the past comprehensible in terms of it.

It is a habit of mine always to give up to Miss Halcombe. I find, by experience, that it saves noise.

Until our states become members of a large and effectively protective group they will continue to act like individuals and families in the hunting stage.

A knowledge of history may teach us that civilization is a co-operative product, that nearly all peoples have contributed to it; it is our common heritage and debt; and the civilized soul will reveal itself in treating every man or woman, however lowly, as a representative of one of these creative and contributory groups.

If men were entirely social, man would stagnate; a certain alloy of individualism and competition is required to make the human species survive and grow.

Loskiel reported some Indian tribes of the northeast as "so lazy that they plant nothing themselves, but rely entirely upon the expectation that others will not refuse to share their produce with them. Since the industrious thus enjoy no more of the fruits of their labor than the idle, they plant less every year.

The invention of money coöperated with these factors by facilitating the accumulation, transport and transmission of property.

Competition is frequently praised as a great virtue to be developed by everyone. This is a costly misunderstanding, since human skills develop adequately only in cooperation, a condition of reinforcement. Competition always lies at cross-purposes with cooperation and thus frustrates individual human initiative.

Opposition is true Friendship.

Because it seems to me that to be human you have to be able to compromise.

We need an assembly, not for cleverness, but for setting things straight.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

A social organism of any sort whatever, large or small, is what it is because each member proceeds to his own duty with a trust that the other members will simultaneously do theirs. Wherever a desired result is achieved by the co-operation of many independent persons, its existence as a fact is a pure consequence of the precursive faith in one another of those immediately concerned.