Common Goal Quotes

• Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

  Bill Bradley

  Motivational, Friendship, Forgiveness

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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• Putting on the same jerseys doesn’t make a team. You’re still just a collection of individuals until you find a common goal.

  Harry Sinden

  Team, Goal, Jersey

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• We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only one finger...Even if that one finger is extremely strong, it will prove almost impossible to pick up that pencil unless you use your other fingers or some other part of your hand. Teamwork is a bit like using all of your fingers. Each one is unique and contributes something different, but they unite in pursuit of a common goal.

  Terry Orlick

  Teamwork, Strong, Unique

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• One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Goal, Together

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• History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

  Haile Selassie

  Strength, Differences, Goal

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• I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, War

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• The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.

  Dave DeBusschere

  Motivational, Basketball, Team

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• On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

  Lou Holtz

  Teamwork, Jobs, Nfl

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• We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at.

  Lewis Thomas

  Life, Music, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Most of us at one time or another have been part of a great 'team', a group of people who functioned together in an extraordinary way-who trusted one another, who complemented each other's strengths and compensated for each other's limitations, who had common goals that were larger than an individual's goals, and who produced extraordinary results ... the team that became great didn't start off great-it learned how to produce extraordinary results.

  Peter Senge

  Team, People, Goal

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• Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

  Larry Dixon

  Team, Winning, People

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• Leadership can't be claimed like luggage at the airport. Leadership can't be inherited, even though you may inherit a leadership position. And leadership can't be given as a gift - even if you've been blessed with an abundance of leadership skills to share with someone else. Leadership must be earned by mastering a defined set of skills and by working with others to achieve common goals.

  David Cottrell

  Blessed, Airports, Skills

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• Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

  Garry Wills

  Leadership, Goal, Common

  Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Winning, Organization

  Sandy Koufax, Edward Linn (1966). “Koufax”

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• We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.

  Bob Taft

  Children, Goal, Want

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• Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

  Harold Washington

  Cities, People, Goal

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• People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Party, Goal, People

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Organization, Goal, Focus

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.75, Penguin

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• We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws.
  [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]

  Ovid

  Death, Law, Goal

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• Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Team, People, Goal

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• What works for Sweden wouldn't work for France or Germany or Italy. In a small state, you can reach outside for many of your activities. In a homogeneous culture, they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to achieve commonly held goals. But "common goals" are much harder to come by in larger, more heterogeneous populations.

  Milton Friedman

  Order, Goal, Population

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science and culture. I mean that is what I live. That is what UNESCO is really about; it's all about bringing human beings together with one common goal, which is to move human kind forward.

  Herbie Hancock

  Moving, Mean, Organization

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• The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, Future, Goal

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