Quotes About Cooperation

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

It is much more important that we unite, harmonize and improve what we have than attempt to acquire more.

Heredity and Environment are the master-influences of the organic world. These have made all of us what we are. These forces are still ceaselessly playing upon all our lives. And he who truly understands these influences; he who has decided how much to allow to each; he who can regulate new forces as they arise, or adjust them to the old, so directing them as at one moment to make them cooperate, at another to counteract one another, understands the rationale of personal development.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Asking 'Who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

2. A disregard of competition. Whoever does a thing best ought to be the one to do it. It is criminal to try to get business away from another man—criminal because one is then trying to lower for personal gain the condition of one's fellow man—to rule by force instead of by intelligence.

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

There is enough and to spare. The trouble is that, in this mad struggle, we trample in the mire what has been provided in sufficiency for us all; trample it in the mire while we tear and rend each other.

Whoever injures another injures himself because he decreases the opportunities for gain that come through co-operation and exchange.

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies

Roosevelt returned to this theme in his fourth inaugural address in 1945: We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one." We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear.

The essence of building a constructive world order is that no single country, neither China nor the United States, is in a position to fill by itself the world leadership role of the sort that the United States occupied in the immediate post–Cold War period, when it was materially and psychologically preeminent.

framework of order to keep the peace. Order and freedom, sometimes described as opposite poles on the spectrum of experience, should instead be understood as interdependent. Can today's leaders rise above the urgency of day-to-day events to achieve this balance?

What remains to be dealt with is to move from crisis management to a definition of common goals, from the solution of strategic controversies to their avoidance. Is it possible to evolve a genuine partnership and a world order based on cooperation? Can China and the United States develop genuine strategic trust?