# Quotes about cooperation

- Quotes: 33
- Authors: 29
- Broader topic: [Quotes about relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md)
- Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation
- JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.json

## Quotes

> Crows know the value of organization, and are as well drilled as soldiers — very much better than some soldiers, in fact, for crows are always on duty, always at war, and always dependent on each other for life and safety.

[Ernest Thompson Seton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-thompson-seton.md) · [Wild Animals I Have Known](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-thompson-seton/wild-animals-i-have-known.md) · p. 63 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-thompson-seton/wild-animals-i-have-known/crows-know-the.md)

Topics: [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> “It would have worked,” she said. “If we’d cooperated, it would have worked.”
>
> “It would have been better.”
>
> “I think about all the things we could have done, all the miracles we could have achieved, if we were all just a little bit better than it turns out we are.”

[James S. A. Corey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey.md) · [Leviathan Falls](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-falls.md) · p. 374 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/leviathan-falls/it-would-have.md)

Topics: [human nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Conflict does breed innovation, but so does diversity and cultural development. Bringing people together to share ideas is just as powerful a catalyst.

[Wesley Chu](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu.md) · [The Lives of Tao](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu/the-lives-of-tao.md) · p. 325 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wesley-chu/the-lives-of-tao/conflict-does-breed.md)

Topics: [creativity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/creativity.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Skills used unselfishly make for cooperation.

[Robert Holdstock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-holdstock.md) · [Mythago Wood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-holdstock/mythago-wood.md) · p. 148 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-holdstock/mythago-wood/skills-used-unselfishly.md)

Topics: [talent](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/talent.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> When times are easy and there’s plenty to go around, individual species can go it alone. But when conditions are harsh and life is tenuous, it takes a team sworn to reciprocity to keep life going forward. In a world of scarcity, interconnection and mutual aid become critical for survival.

[Robin Wall Kimmerer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer.md) · [Braiding Sweetgrass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass.md) · p. 272 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/when-times-are.md)

Topics: [survival](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/survival.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> ...when we have more minds concerned, any challenge shrinks proportionally. The solution to our greatest problems may simply be involvement.

[William Coperthwaite](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-coperthwaite.md) · [A Handmade Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-coperthwaite/a-handmade-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-coperthwaite/a-handmade-life/when-we-have.md)

Topics: [problems](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/problems.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> “The strongest don’t always get what they want,” she said to Ending. “Not when the weak can work together.”

[Django Wexler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler.md) · [The Fall of the Readers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-fall-of-the-readers.md) · p. 331 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/django-wexler/the-fall-of-the-readers/the-strongest-dont.md)

Topics: [strength](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/strength.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Before one begins to talk coalition, one should establish clearly the premises on which that coalition will be based. All parties to the coalition must perceive a mutually beneficial goal based on the conception of each party of his own self-interest. One party must not blindly assume that what is good for one is automatically—without question—good for the other.

[Charles V. Hamilton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-v-hamilton.md) · [Black Power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-v-hamilton/black-power.md) · p. 77 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-v-hamilton/black-power/before-one-begins.md)

Topics: [politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> At its best, mutual aid actually produces new ways of living where people get to create systems of care and generosity that address harm and foster well-being.

[Dean Spade](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-spade.md) · [Mutual Aid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-spade/mutual-aid.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-spade/mutual-aid/at-its-best.md)

Topics: [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> 'Co-operation makes many things possible. Co-operation introduces a factor which is greater than the sum of its parts. [...] Such a tremendous thing - the ability to co-operate... It makes you wonder what we could do if we were really to co-operate.'

[John Wyndham](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham.md) · [Web](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/web.md) · p. 135 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/web/co-operation-makes-many.md)

Topics: [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.

[Marilyn Ferguson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson.md) · [The Aquarian Conspiracy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/there-are-no-passengers.md)

Topics: [responsibility](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/responsibility.md), [ecology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ecology.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Not realizing that our species evolved in cooperation, we have opted for competition in work, school, relationships. Not understanding the body's ability to reorganize its internal processes, we have drugged and doctored ourselves into bizarre side effects.

[Marilyn Ferguson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson.md) · [The Aquarian Conspiracy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/not-realizing-that.md)

Topics: [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Over many years of work all over the world, I've learned that if we organize in the same way that the rest of life does, we develop the skills we need: we become resilient, adaptive, aware, and creative. We enjoy working together. And life's processes work everywhere, no matter the culture, group, or person, because these are basic dynamics shared by all living beings.

[Margaret J. Wheatley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-j-wheatley.md) · [Finding Our Way](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-j-wheatley/finding-our-way.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-j-wheatley/finding-our-way/over-many-years.md)

Topics: [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

[Margaret J. Wheatley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-j-wheatley.md) · [Turning to One Another](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-j-wheatley/turning-to-one-another.md) · p. 72 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-j-wheatley/turning-to-one-another/in-our-daily.md)

Topics: [anger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger.md), [greed](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Above everything else, perhaps, was today’s concept of working together. I don’t mean its totalitarian version, for which Jack Havig had total loathing, or that “togetherness,” be it in a corporation or a commune, which he despised. I mean an enlightened pragmatism that rejects self-appointed aristocrats, does not believe received doctrine is necessarily true, stands ready to hear and weigh what anyone has to offer, and maintains well-developed channels to carry all ideas to the leadership and back again.

[Poul Anderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson.md) · [There Will Be Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/there-will-be-time.md) · p. 155 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/there-will-be-time/above-everything-else.md)

Topics: [democracy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.

[Keith Ferrazzi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-ferrazzi.md) · [Never Eat Alone](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-ferrazzi/never-eat-alone.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/keith-ferrazzi/never-eat-alone/we-have-a-tendency.md)

Topics: [independence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/independence.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

[Chinua Achebe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe.md) · [No Longer at Ease](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/no-longer-at-ease.md) · p. 95 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chinua-achebe/no-longer-at-ease/when-there-is-a-big.md)

Topics: [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> How do you get people to help you? You can’t get there alone. People have to help you and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth; by being earnest. I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

[Randy Pausch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch.md) · [The Last Lecture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/randy-pausch/the-last-lecture/how-do-you.md)

Topics: [honesty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/honesty.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Social production is not a panacea; it is just an alternative. Although we are better off being able to use it when it is valuable, it brings its own challenges, just as production via firms and governments does. Even the simplest pooled effort or voluntary participation can be fraught with tension among the individual participants, and between those individuals and the group. Like many aspects of social life, this problem has no solution; the dilemma can be addressed only by various compromises, none of them wholly satisfactory. One way to help a group of participants improve their ability to function together is the creation and maintenance of shared culture.

[Clay Shirky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clay-shirky.md) · [Cognitive Surplus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clay-shirky/cognitive-surplus.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clay-shirky/cognitive-surplus/social-production-is-not.md)

Topics: [culture](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/culture.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process: if enough people care enough about an article to read it, then enough people will care enough to improve it, and over time this will lead to a large enough body of good enough work to begin to take both availability and quality of articles for granted, and to integrate Wikipedia into daily use by millions.

[Clay Shirky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clay-shirky.md) · [Here Comes Everybody](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clay-shirky/here-comes-everybody.md) · p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clay-shirky/here-comes-everybody/because-wikipedia-is-a-process.md)

Topics: [knowledge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> "Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me."
>
> Polo answers: "Without stones there is no arch."

[Italo Calvino](https://www.leafyquotes.com/italo-calvino.md) · [Invisible Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/italo-calvino/invisible-cities.md) · p. 82 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/italo-calvino/invisible-cities/why-do-you.md)

Topics: [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> It is the great irony of life that a mindless act repeated in sequence can only lead to greater depths of absurdity, while a mindless act performed in parallel by a swarm of individuals can, under the proper conditions, lead to all that we find interesting.

[Kevin Kelly](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly.md) · [Out Of Control](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kevin-kelly/out-of-control/it-is-the.md)

Topics: [paradox](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradox.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> … because contrary to what people say, two weaknesses don't make for a still greater weakness, but for renewed strength ...

[José Saramago](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago.md) · [The Cave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jose-saramago/the-cave/because-contrary-to-what.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.

[Saul Alinsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky.md) · [Rules for Radicals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals.md) · p. 113 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/change-comes-from.md)

Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> It’s all a bit anarchic, I suppose, but it’s also highly effective. Flexible, responsive, mobile, heuristic, with intelligence distributed to the lowest level...A bit like an ideal human society, I suppose; free individuals seeking out ways to advance the common good.

[Stephen Baxter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter.md) · [Timelike Infinity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/timelike-infinity.md) · p. 266 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-baxter/timelike-infinity/its-all-a-bit.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> To one extent or another, then, you learn to constantly monitor your behavior, so that it conforms to the established criteria set up for sane or rational experience. You are social creatures, as the animals are. Despite many of your cherished, erroneous beliefs, your nations exist as the result of cooperation, not competition, as do all social groupings.

[Jane Roberts](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts.md) · [The Nature of the Psyche](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-nature-of-the-psyche.md) · p. 23 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-roberts/the-nature-of-the-psyche/to-one-extent.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Partnership—the tendency to associate, establish links, live inside one another, and cooperate—is one of the hallmarks of life.

[Fritjof Capra](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fritjof-capra.md) · [The Web of Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fritjof-capra/the-web-of-life.md) · p. 300 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fritjof-capra/the-web-of-life/partnership-the-tendency-to-associate.md)

Topics: [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

[Nelson Mandela](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nelson-mandela.md) · [Long Walk to Freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nelson-mandela/long-walk-to-freedom.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nelson-mandela/long-walk-to-freedom/if-you-want.md)

Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation. p. 87

[Napoleon Hill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/napoleon-hill.md) · [Think And Grow Rich](https://www.leafyquotes.com/napoleon-hill/think-and-grow-rich.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/napoleon-hill/think-and-grow-rich/success-comes-through.md)

Topics: [success and failure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/success-and-failure.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws. The law develops its own power structure, creating more wounds and new injustices. Such trauma can be healed by cooperation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer.

[Frank Herbert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert.md) · [God Emperor of Dune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/god-emperor-of-dune.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frank-herbert/god-emperor-of-dune/remember-that-there.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [law](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/law.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Americans combine to give fêtes, found seminaries, build churches, distribute books, and send missionaries to the antipodes. Hospitals, prisons, and schools take shape in that way. Finally, if they want to proclaim a truth or propagate some feeling by the encouragement of a great example, they form an association. In every case, at the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association. I have come across several types of association in America of which, I confess, I had not previously the slightest conception, and I have often admired the extreme skill they show in proposing a common object for the exertions of very many and in inducing them voluntarily to pursue it.

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville.md) · [Democracy in America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america/americans-combine-to-give.md)

Topics: [America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/america.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

[Alexis de Tocqueville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville.md) · [Democracy in America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america/americans-of-all.md)

Topics: [democracy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy.md), [America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/america.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)

> The social relation of the sexes is a wonderful thing. This relation produces a moral person of which woman is the eye and man the hand, but the two are so dependent on one another that the man teaches the woman what to see, while she teaches him what to do. If women could discover principles and if men had as good heads for detail, they would be mutually independent, they would live in perpetual strife, and there would be an end to all society. But in their mutual harmony each contributes to a common purpose; each follows the other's lead, each commands and each obeys.

[Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/the-social-relation.md)

Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men.md), [cooperation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cooperation.md)