This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole nation. The sole purpose of this army is to stand firmly with the Chinese people and to serve them whole-heartedly.
Very few things in life are more fulfilling than being part of a team and knowing you're a part of something bigger than your own self-interest.
But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .
Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before their group. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others, the ability to make purpose articulate. And then that common purpose becomes the leader.
Wherever I go, I get a sense of longing for community and the desire on the part of grassroots citizens to be part of something bigger and far nobler than themselves. This attitude is particularly evident among the young, many of whom feel deprived of a great cause in which to enlist. .
Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose … Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom.
I believe sport brings people together and allows them to feel united for a common goal.
We must come together with one heart, one mind, one love and one determination.
Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.
There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.
What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.
The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are
Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement.
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
The individual is prior to society and society must be ordered to the good of the individual.
People must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obligated by the deepest drives of the human spirit to make ourselves more than animated dust, and we must have a story to tell about where we came from, and why we are here.
Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.
There is a sense of feeling larger than your own life when you're in some common mission together. You have to hope it's not going to take a war to bring that back to America again. I think another time when it seemed to be here was in the early 1960s.
Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.
People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.
Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.
I like the ethos of the military and the idea of joining an institution in which, at the very least, everyone who signs up believes in something.
The way that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform, determined to do something.
