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Welcome to these Cooperative Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
If everyone is moving forward together,
then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
Cooperation is less stressful than competition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other.
To catch each other when we falter.
To encourage each other when we lose heart.
Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.
- Hilary Clinton
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Though force can protect in emergency,
only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation
can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Individually, we do have our crises -
mostly from unexpected directions,
but so have all people from all ages.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually
there would be no wars and no poverty.
I have made myself personally responsible
for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
- Anais Nin
It is not our place to know the mind of God.
Spirit knows what is best in the long run -
best for each of us individually,
and best for humanity as a whole.
This is often very difficult to accept
when we see war and disease in the world
and experience physical and emotional suffering
in ourselves, our family, and our friends.
I consider this belief in God's infinite power
and ultimate wisdom to be the true test of faith.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi
Our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
We hardly ever realize that we can
cut anything out of our lives,
anytime, in the blink of an eye.
- Carlos Castaneda
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
We get to CHOOSE the meaning for our lives.
Our lives mean exactly what we say they do - no more, no less.
Each of us chooses their path in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Adversity can crush our spirit -
or strengthen it - it is our choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart,
and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Music takes us out of the actual
and whispers to us dim secrets
that startle our wonder as to who we are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only when life is difficult,
are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
- John Bradshaw
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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