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Working on a team is fun, but great teamwork makes it even better. Teamwork is an awesome driver for performance, productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency. I’m sharing a list of teamwork quotes that I’ve collected over time and I’m sure you and your team will find them inspirational.
Check it out and share with your team.
Teamwork Quotes
- “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford
- “To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority.” – Christine Caine
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
- “Politeness is the poison of collaboration.” – Edwin Land
- “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.” – Amy Poehler
- “The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” – Lewis B. Ergen
- “In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly.” — Mark Sanborn
- “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry Truman
- “A single leaf working alone provides no shade.” – Chuck Page
- “What separates the good players from a great player is that a great player is willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- “There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.” – Mandy Hale
- “Success is best when it’s shared.” – Howard Schultz
- “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
- “Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.” — Tom J. Bouchard
- “The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” — Margaret Carty
- “You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.” – Jim Stovall
- “None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Ken Blanchard
- “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” – Andrew Carnegie
- “When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.” ― Biz Stone
- “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
- “Every once in a while you hear an expert that says team chemistry is overrated. You just write that person off.” – Tony La Russa
- “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” – James Cash Penney
- “The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
- “A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.” – Norman Shidle
- “Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do.” — Robert Schuller
- “Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.” – Pat Summitt
- “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” – Indira Gandhi
- “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
- “Decency is avoiding disrespect, not avoiding disagreement. Integrity is trying to get it right, not being right.” – Adam Grant
- “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” – Reid Hoffman
- “Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” – Patrick Lencioni
- “One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- “The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other.” — Thomas Stallkamp
- “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H.E. Luccock
- “Create an environment where people can take risks. If everything has to be brilliant from the word go, you’re never gonna get off the ground.” – Paul Hewson, aka, Bono
- “Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” — John Rockefeller
- “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson
- “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “You are not the work you do; you are the person you are.” – Toni Morrison
- “The whole is other than the sum of the parts.” – Kurt Koffka
- “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” – Virginia Burden
- “No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” — Warren Buffett
- “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” – Iyanla Vanzant
- “Many hands make light work.” – John Heywood
- “One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but teamwork dynamites.” – Jin Kwon
- “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” ― Virginia Burden
- “It’s better to be alone than in bad company.” ― George Washington
- “Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen.” – Akwaeke Emezi
- “Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.” – Simon Mainwaring
- “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
- “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken.” — Bonnie Edelstein
- “Iteration is the fundamental basis of all improvement.” – Mark Manson
- “Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.” — Patrick Lencioni
- “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” – Babe Ruth
- “It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin
- “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity” – Sun Tzu
- “Never confuse movement with action.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” – Emily Kimbrough
- “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan
- “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” –Napoleon Hill
- “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro
- “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs
- “Our love is so big. It has room for everybody.” — Cari Tuna
- “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” – George Shinn
- “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.” — Ted Sundquist
- “Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.” – Ram Dass
- A team is not a group of people who work together but a team is a group of people who trust each other.” — Simon Sinek
- “Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.” — Amit Ray
- “What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.” — Madeleine Albright
- “Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team.” — Brian Tracy
- “If you can laugh together, you can work together.” — Robert Orben
- “We rise by lifting others” – Robert Ingersoll
- “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.” — Simon Sinek
- “Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.” – Mark Twain
- “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” – Henry Ford
- “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” – Matthew Woodring Stover
Team Motivational Quotes
- “To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.” – John Adams
- “A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.” – Barbara Glacel
- “None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.” – Mother Teresa
- “Our destiny is not written for us, it’s written by us” – Barack Obama
- “A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.” – Proverb
- “It takes two flints to make a fire.” – Louisa May Alcott
- “Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden
- “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” – Babe Ruth
- “The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.” – Jim Hightower
- “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
- “I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I’m changing the things I cannot accept.” – Angela Davis
- “Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you.” – Kris A. Hiatt
- “Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment.” – Scott Galloway
Hard Work Quotes
- “Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
- “Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.” – Ginni Rometty
- “When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.” – Dr. Dre
- “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “True heroes are made of hard work and integrity.” — Hope Solo
- “Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.” – Helena Rubinstein
- “We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” – Ariana Huffington
- “It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.” — Shonda Rhimes
- “Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” – Malcolm Forbes
- “Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.” — Dustin Moskovitz
- “Lead by example, insist on teamwork and instill motivation. Self-discipline is what gets you to work every day, and hard work builds character.” — Dave Mueller
- “Elevate true productivity over the appearance of hard work.” — Scott Belsky
I hope you find these teamwork quotes inspirational. Now, it is time to communicate them with your team.
Let me know in the comments what you favorite teamwork quote it.