Cooperation Quotes –
Team Quotes about Working Together

I hope you'll find inspiration in these words of wisdom about cooperation.

Quotes can be used in so many ways to motivate teams in the workplace – for ideas, see our page on using teamwork quotes and sayings.

Cooperation Quotes about Achieving More Together

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. ~ Napoleon Hill

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. ~ Stephen Covey

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

Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much. ~Helen Keller

The path to greatness is along with others. ~Baltasar Gracian

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. ~Dr. Allan Fromme

Two heads are better than one. ~Polish proverb

Cooperation Quotes about Synergy and Working Together

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people. ~Stephen Covey

The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential...the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons. ~Max DePree

Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. ~Mark Twain

If you can laugh together, you can work together. ~Robert Orben

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. ~John Ashcroft

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
~George Bernard Shaw

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. ~Martin Luther King Jr

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
~Dwight Eisenhower

The above movie shows what geese can teach us about cooperation. If you want another analogy about animals working together, see this link about wolves.

Cooperation Quotes about Why Co-operating is Important

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

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people. ~Earl Nightingale

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. ~Bertrand Russell

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

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. ~Woodrow Wilson

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. ~Orison Swett Marden

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. ~Virginia Burden

Cooperation Quotes about the Benefits of Working Together

Working together works. ~Dr. Rob Gilbert

Whether it's two people, a department or an organisation, teams are the means by which great things get done. ~Steven J. Stowell

He that does good to another does good also to himself. ~Lucius Seneca

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

It takes two wings to fly. ~Eric Schaub

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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