James Mark Baldwin Quotes

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

We live in an interdependent world. We depend on one another for prosperity.

If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive.

If you've got 15 actors on stage who are all trying to shine a light on themselves, they are all trying to outshine each other. Whereas if you have 14 of those actors trying to shine a light on one person, and each of them is trying to make the other look good, you have a much more interesting process.

You always try to make your teammates better. You help out your teammates, and they help you out in return. As they get better and better, they can help you more and more. At least, I've always seen it that way.

I think if I have that team mentality, then my individual growth will shine as it did in college.

You cannot win a game of football on your own; it's about the entire squad working together to achieve something. That's how football works: it has always been about the group, not the individual.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.

What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

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

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.