Marcus Aurelius Quotes

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

We want to create a society that is working for us and with us - and we're working for society, not against it.

I can't think of a community that couldn't benefit from communal thinking.

The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.

You are only as good as your team.

Every American is dependent on every other American; that no segment of our people can prosper without the prosperity of all; that in truth we must all go forward together.

How few aim at the good of the whole, without aiming too much at the prosperity of the parts!

We are all members of one body …. The benefit of one is the benefit of all.

What is not good for everyone is not good for anyone.

There is a Necessity of strict Union between the whole Colonies, without any of them considering their particular Interest separate from the general Good of the whole.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.

In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all.

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

Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.

All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.

Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.

As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end; if each individual's well-being is simultaneously the condition necessary to the well-being of others, it is evident that the contrast between I and thou, means and end, automatically is overcome.