The quote "Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is suc…" is famous quote attributed to Henry Ford (1863–1947), American industrialist.
Variant: Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
Attributed to Edward Everett Hale in: United States. President (1922). Addresses of the President of the U.S. and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. p. 80
Second inaugural address (January 20, 1997)
1990s
Context: Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a Godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.
“Perforce, the family that preys together stays together.”
Source: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 22, “Toymaker: Happy Families” (p. 251)
WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 20 March 2020 https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---20-march-2020, World Health Organization.
“Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together”
Source: Presidency (1977–1981), Inaugural Address (1977)
Context: Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.
“A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.”
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 59.
Interview with TV3 Catalunya, 1987 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SKJcl2N7bE
“Opposites work together in the very opposite of the way they seem… They work together in teams.”
Brace Yourself: The Five Heresies
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)
