Community
Building
“Never one
thing and seldom one person can make for a success. It takes a number of them, merging into one perfect whole.”
--Anonymous
“By the hands of many a great work is
made light.”
--Anonymous
“There are
no problems we cannot solve together, and very few we can solve by ourselves.”
By: Lyndon
B. Johnson
“It is in the shelter of each other that
people live.”
--Irish
Proverb
“Only from
the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things
born.”
By:
Antonie de Saint Exupery
Congo
Proverb
“Coming
together is a beginning . . .
keeping
together is progress . . .
working
together is a success.”
--Anonymous
“When
spider webs unite, they can tie up a tiger.”
Ethiopian
Proverb
“Just as
water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another.”
By:
Solomon
“True
leaders are not those who strive to be first but those who are first to strive
and who give their all for the success of the team. True leaders are first to see the need, envision the plan, and
empower the team for action. By the
strength of the leader’s commitment, the power of the team is unleashed.”
--Anonymous
“Regard
your neighbor’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own
loss.”
By: Tai
Shang Kan Ying P’ien
“Wherever
my life touches yours, I help or hinder…Wherever your life touches mine, you
make me stronger or weaker…There is no escape—people drag others down or people
lift others up.”
By: Booker T. Washington
“We cannot
live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and
among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they
come back to us as effects.”
By: Herman
Melville
“A single
twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.”
By: Tecumseh
“A chain is as strong
as its weakest link.
--Anonymous
“Alone we
can do so little, together we can do so much.”
By: Helen Keller
“One hand
cannot applaud alone.”
--Arabian
proverb
“All
things are connected. Whatever befalls
the earth befalls the children of the earth.”
By: Chief
Seattle, Suqwamish and Duwamish
“One bee
doesn’t make a hive.”
A Mexican
Saying
“If we have no peace, it is because
we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.”
By: Mother
Teresa
“It is a fact that in the right
formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of
any bird flying alone.”
--Anonymous
“A boat doesn’t go forward if
each one is rowing their own way.”
--Swahili
proverb
"You cannot clap with one hand."
Chinese Proverbs
By: Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Chronicle Books LLC