Van Jones Quotes

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every team boat will have its disagreements and arguments, but if it doesn't kill us or the boat, it will make us stronger.

All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Our people are frustrated when we spend more time fighting among ourselves than focusing on solving the day-to-day challenges they experience.

I really believe in a community effort.

Teamwork is a strategic decision.

So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and women and settle the things that divide us from each other, then come together like a solid wall and we could make something happen.

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

We need to learn to get along with each other and learn how to help one another.

It's important to realize that we all need to work together. With Weaving Movements, we are all interdependent and we all have to work together. If we could just realize that and understand that, we'll keep our country strong.

Why can't we all just get along?

Unless we share with each other we gotta start makin' changes

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.

We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

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

Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.