Sunday, March 22, 2015

Quotes about Teamwork

Defense and rescue team on a mountain with helicopter about to land
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love. Anatole France 

A fraternity is the antithesis of fraternity. The first that is, the order of organization is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second that is, the abstract thing is based on a feeling of total equality. E. B. White

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and therefore, brothers. Martin Luther King

Politics is like coaching a football team. You have to be smart enough to understand the game but not smart enough to lose interest.

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream; it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.  Oscar Wilde

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers… Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.  Francois Fenelon

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who love not their fellow beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave. Shelley

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgia's, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michael Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace; and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.  Orson Welles

Teamwork is essential. It allows you to blame someone else. James Rayner 

That segment of the community with which one has the greatest sympathy as a liberal, inevitably turns out to be one of the most narrow-minded and bigoted segments of the community. Levy

Don’t let your neighbors set your standards: be yourself. Unknown

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. Confucius

It is clear that the individual, who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.  Voltaire

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. Max Lerner 

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Kahlil Gibran

There is neither east nor west, border, nor breed, nor birth when two strong men stand face to face though they come from the ends of the earth. Rudyard Kipling

It has been said that Public Relations is the art of winning friends and getting people under the influence.  Jeremy Tunstall 

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. Edwin Markham 

Be together like brothers, but do business like strangers. Proverb

It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites. Henry Miller

We seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of men. John F. Kennedy 

Only in solitude do we find ourselves, and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. Miguel De Unamuno 

Man ceases to be concerned with himself; he recognizes of a sudden what he forms part of. If he should die, he would not be cutting himself off from his kind, but making himself one with them. Saint-Exupery 

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King. Jr

As man increases his knowledge of the heavens, why should he fear the unknown on earth? As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?  Lyndon B. Johnson 

Though men are brothers their pockets are not sisters. Unknown

The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to brotherhood. Lyndon B Johnson 

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. Somerset Maugham

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. Jerome K. Jerome 

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us. Henry Ward Beecher

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze. Horace

Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage. Alexis de Tocqueville 

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it. Edgar Watson Howe 

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. John Donne

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. Thorstein Veblen; 

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

It is easy enough to be friendly towards one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business. Mohandas K. Gandhi

There is a difference between justice and consideration in one’s relations to one’s fellow men. It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one’s fellow men of considerateness, not to wound their feelings. Cicero

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. Bertrand Russell

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things; and then we shall be very cautious. Pascal

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise. Pindar 

A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men. Eric Hoffer 

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it. Mark Twain

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.  Michael Winner

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves. Charles Caleb Colton

When the head aches, all the members partake in the pain. Cervantes

A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle. Proverb