Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

As I go, the team goes. If the team's not going, I'm not going. No matter how good I play, it's still bad.

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Everyone shares the same fate.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

Keep reminding people of what's important and that their fates are correlated.

How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.

It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.

...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared.

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone.