Chris Hadfield Quotes

There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.

I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism is gone, never to return.

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

I don't think it's my job, single-handedly, to fix anything. I think it's my job to have a vision and have a plan that is reasonable and workable and get as many people to the table to effect change as possible.

I really believe in a community effort.

It's not about someone making a difference on their own; it's about everybody pulling together to make a difference.

No one person is going to come in and change the world, or a national team.

If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.

It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.

We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.

One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.

As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place

There's nothing that can't be done if we raise our voice as one.

Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.

Alone, no one wins freedom.

Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side.

It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team.