“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”
“I'm not a self-made man. I cannot forget those who have sacrificed for me to get where I am today.”
“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”
“I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.”
“No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.”
“God does notice us, and He watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs.”
“Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.”
“Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.”
“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.”
“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.”
“I felt compelled to perform -- to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren”
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”
“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 one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
“The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”