Cooperation Quotes

As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

What is important is that we make sure to work together, that we understand our strength comes from unity and not division.

My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

You see, when there is danger, a good leader takes the front line. But when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back room. If you want the cooperation of human beings around you, make them feel that they are important. And you do that by being humble.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.

Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

I believe in forgiveness; I believe in trying to work with people.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

Cooperation is working together agreeably... Collaboration is working together aggressively; and theres a world of difference between those two.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is a global problem, both in terms of its causes and its effects. The protocol is the result of an extraordinary process of scientific study, negotiations among representatives of the business and environmental communities, and international diplomacy. It is a monumental achievement.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust.

Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things.

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.

The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage in a mad race in armament which, if permitted to continue, may well result in war. This grave menace to the peace of the world is due in no small measure to the uncontrolled activities of the manufacturers and merchants of engines of destruction, and it it must be met by the concerted actions of the peoples of all Nations.

Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

‎Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It is because our own human existence is so dependent on the help of others that our need for love lies at the very foundation of our existence. Therefore we need a genuine sense of responsibility and a sincere concern for the welfare of others.

So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.

Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

Love is co-operation rather than competition.

Government is not a warfare of interests.

The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.

Us as a people, we can't do it on our own. We have to understand that we're not each other's enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.

We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.

In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

Let's build bridges, not walls.

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.

I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.

What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.

I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground.

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.

I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate.

Whatever I fight weakens me. Whatever I cooperate with strengthens me.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

In the field of world policy; I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.

The problem is to overcome the ingrained disbelief in the power of winning nature by love, in the gentle (ju) way (do) of turning with the skid, of controlling ourselves by cooperating with ourselves.