Common Purpose Quotes

• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.

  James M. Kouzes

  People, Atmosphere, Working Together

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2010). “The Leadership Challenge”, p.318, John Wiley & Sons

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• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude". Book by W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill (Chapter 2: You Can Change Your World), 1960.

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• When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

  Howard Schultz

  Commitment, People, Passionate

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• 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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.

  Sara Ahmed

  Pain, Struggle, Commitment

  Sara Ahmed (2013). “The Cultural Politics of Emotion”, p.189, Routledge

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• People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.

  Tom Vilsack

  Teamwork, Strong, Goal

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• Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leader, Followers, Invisible

  Mary Parker Follett (2013). “Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization”, p.55, Routledge

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• Equality comes in realizing that we are all doing different jobs for a common purpose. That is the aim behind any community. The very name community means let's come together to recognize the unity. Come ... unity.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Jobs, Mean, Names

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• Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

  Landon Donovan

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which are not yet there... Above all, he should make his co-workers see that it is not his purpose which is to be achieved, but a common purpose, born of the desires and the activities of the group.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Successful, Leader, Desire

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• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  Michael Foot

  Mean, Helping Others, Greed

  Michael Foot (1984). “Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society”, HarperCollins

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• A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

  Thomas Paine

  Party, Moving, Greatness

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface”, p.98

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• The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

  Madeleine Albright

  Circumstances, Oneself, Purpose

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• My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Leadership, Motivation, Character

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• If two or three agree on a common purpose, nothing is impossible.

  Jim Rohn

  Two, Three, Impossible

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 28, 2016

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• In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Philosophy, Two, Medicine

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Creating a Role”, p.193, A&C Black

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• Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Honesty, Oneness, Effort

  "A Plea for Solidarity". The International Socialist Review, Vplume XIV, No. 9, March 1914.

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• In science men have learned consciously to subordinate themselves to a common purpose without losing the individuality of their achievements. Each one knows that his work depends on that of his predecessors and colleagues, and that it can only reach its fruition through the work of his successors. In science men collaborate not because they are forced to by superior authority or because they blindly follow some chosen leader, but because they realize that only in this willing collaboration can each man find his goal.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Men, Goal, Leader

  "The Social Function of Science". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1939.

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• Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before their group. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others, the ability to make purpose articulate. And then that common purpose becomes the leader.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Followers, Depth

  Mary Parker Follett (2013). “Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization”, p.55, Routledge

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• The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Team, Quality

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• Today we stand together all around the world, joined in a common purpose - to remake the planet into a haven of joy and understanding and goodness.

  Michael Jackson

  Joy, Understanding, Together

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from May 15, 2013

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• People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they're going to visit at 3am. So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking.

  George Carlin

  Song, Hate, Eye

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• In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Veterans Day, Hands, Order

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• Two ( or more) people come together and they agree that they should be together for a common purpose and that purpose is to add value to one another. ENGAGEMENTS are partnerships that should ALWAYS be Win-Win.

  John C. Maxwell

  Winning, Two, People

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