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
Strong Common Goal quotations
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.
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.
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.
True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes.
They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.
The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
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.
Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to eliminate one another from play.... Role games ... bring players together in a mutual effort.
On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
Love is friendship that has caught fire.
... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of beliefs that only the very faithful could adhere to, i.e., those who believe in a security that amounts to being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals
If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.
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.
Set goals - high goals for you and your organization.
When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.
30% of all people will never believe you.
Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on.
We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
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.
Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.
What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.
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.
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.
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.
Winning teams have the least amount of distractions.
They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
Along the journey we commonly forget its goal.
Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.
Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
Putting on the same jerseys doesn’t make a team.
You’re still just a collection of individuals until you find a common goal.
People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.
Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of people and you have a common goal, that's an exciting time.