Collaboration Quotes

“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

“Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it’s cooperation versus competition.”
-Bruce Lipton

“He who cannot help may hinder.”
-German Proverb

“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
-Charles Darwin

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
-Carl Jung

“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

“When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?
-Thomas Hood

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
-Harry S. Truman

“Not in numbers but in unity that our great strength lies.”
-Thomas Paine

“Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.”
-Alexander Graham Bell

“In union there is strength.”
-Aesop

“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.”
-Kenyan Proverb

“A team that sweats together sticks together.”
-Author Unknown

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”
-Halford Edward Luccock

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
-Author Unknown

“Individually we are one drop. Together we are an ocean.”
-Ryunosuke Satoro

“No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Victory is much more meaningful when it comes not just from one person, but from the joint achievements of many.”
-Howard Schultz

“United we stand, divided we fall.” –
-Author Unknown

“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

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

“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.”
-Helen Keller

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
-Henry Ford

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

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
-Andrew Carnegie

“When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.”
-Ethiopian Proverb

“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
-Ken Blanchard

“Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.”
-Sir Ken Robinson Ph.D.