#Cooperation Quotes

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

“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.”

“Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets.Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to The King.Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship.Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business.Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well.”

“Love is co-operation rather than competition.”

“There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.”

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

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

“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.”

“If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.”

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

“The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.”

“Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.”

“Government is not a warfare of interests.”

“Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.”

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

“Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.”

“You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”

“Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.”

“Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.”

“The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.”

“Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.”

“I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?”

“All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.”

“It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good”

“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.”

“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.”

“At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.”

“Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.”

“The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.”

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

“Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.”

“There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace.”

“Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.”

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

“We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.”

“Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.”

“You can't shake hands with a closed fist.”

“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.”

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

“Let us work together for unity and love.”

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