Cooperation Quotes

Being able to cooperate is a key to living a successful life.  Independence is not as important as interdependence.  These cooperation quotes will surprise you:

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative. -Unknown

It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived… -Ralph Charell

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. -Earl Nightingale (1921-1989)

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. -Ben Stein

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. -Brian Tracy

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others. -George Shinn

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)

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. -Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)

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. -Jeff Warner

There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish. -Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933)

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. -W. Clement Stone (1902-2002)

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. -Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

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. -Greg Anderson

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. -Maxwell Maltz

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. -Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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