Happy New Year and welcome to the first Wisdom Wednesday of 2015. It has been quite some time since I wrote this segment. But I am back from an extended hiatus. My hiatus was due in part to the holidays as well as moving my family an all of our belongings across the country. I can assure you each was stressful unto itself but both were such wonderful blessings. The start of 2015 has been fantastic.
While moving is stressful and burdensome, we had some wonderful people helping along the way. Without their help, we really would not have been able to pull this off. Sure there were times when opportunities seemed more like hassles than help but in the end it all turned out for the best. In fact, it was quite seamless in how well that it all worked out.
My move has inspired today’s Wisdom Wednesday virtue of cooperation. Without the cooperation of friends, family, and strangers none of the plans we made (and didn’t make) would have come into fruition. Cooperation is the association with other people to achieve a mutual goal. It is the genuine desire to want to help someone else for the sake of achieving a common objective. In our case it was relocation. But cooperation is seen in business, partnerships, religious affiliations, community service, politics, school, and at home.
Wisdom Wednesday Quotes: Cooperation
- “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
- “Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.”—Helen Keller
- “No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.”—Althea Gibson
- “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 D. Eisenhower
- “The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”—Bertrand Russell
- “Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.”—Chinese Proverb
- “Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.”—Bryant McGill
- “Cooperation is willing collaboration by free individuals in a collective effort that creates more value than it expends.”—James Raymond Lucas
- “Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.”— Fritjof Capra
