Union gives strength.
— Aesop
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
— Aesop
It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.
Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
Men exist for the sake of one another.
Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
— Bible
The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.
Doing things for others always pays dividends...
No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His daily rounds, he would see below millions of his fellow humans busily hurling themselves into the passions, sports, and action of those around him. But if our observer had the power and omniscience of the Lord, he would also feel and sense, pulsing through and vibrating from every one of us here below, a desperate and unending plea, Notice me! I want to be known admired, and loved by the whole world! And it is this, this glorious weakness, this dependence of ours on each other, that makes some of us usually heroes and fools at the same time.
There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.
There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.
It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived
I felt compelled to perform -- to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren’t aware how much it carried me through.
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
There is the sky, which is all men's together.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately.
Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today.
If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.
No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.
God does notice us, and He watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.
I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
We do not exist for ourselves...
Come all good people far and near, Oh, come and see what you can hear.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -- until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
We all end up in a single bed sooner or later.
— Proverb
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
— Seneca
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the root of our kind of art. That requires ensemble acting and whoever mars that ensemble is committing a crime not only against his comrades but also against the very art of which he is the servant.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.
We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.
For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.