The ultimate collection of teamwork quotes to inspire your team to work together better and share in success!
Group Effort Quotes
In the business world, teamwork is essential for success. Whether you’re working on a project as part of a team or collaborating with coworkers to achieve a common goal, teamwork is key.
This collection of teamwork quotes will inspire and motivate you to work together to achieve success.
Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication.
– Mike Krzyzewski
People inspire you or they drain you – pick them wisely.
– Hans F. Hansen
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Team spirit is knowing and living the belief that what a group of people can accomplish together is much larger, far greater, and will exceed that which an individual can accomplish alone.
– Diane Arias
No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.
– B. Dodge
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Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.
– Tom Bouchard
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Teamwork Quote Collection
You only win when you help others win.
– Paul Zane Pilzeer
Empowered teams provide organizations with a capacity to leverage people as a competitive advantage.
– Russell D. Robinson
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
– Napoleon Hill
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A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.
– Jacqueline Novogratz
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
– William B. Given Jr.
It’s better to have a great team, than a team of greats.
– Simon Sinek
Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us.
– Tom Wilson
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.
– Jacque Fresco
Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
– James Cash Penney
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
– Kurt Koffka
Teamwork Quotes To Inspire
Quotes about teamwork are useful because they remind us that success is only possible when we work together.
When we’re struggling to achieve a goal, it can be helpful to read quotes about teamwork that inspire and motivate us to collaborate with others. By working together, we can overcome any challenge and achieve great things.
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
– Lee Iacocca
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
– Robert Schumann
High-performing teams and organizations are built of people, plans, and practices aligned around a shared purpose.
– George B. Bradt; Jayme A. Check; John A. Lawler
Nobody’s going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.
– Jamais Cascio
Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an “I” in “team.” It is the same “I” that appears three times in “responsibility.”
– Amber Harding
Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.
– Ifeanyi Onuoha
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
– Bud Wilkinson
The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement. The question isn’t whether teams have value. The question is whether we acknowledge that fact and become better team players.
– John C. Maxwell
None of us is as smart as all of us.
– Ken Blanchard
It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together.
– Theresa May
Light is the task where many share the toil.
– Homer
Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can lift things a little higher, a little farther, towards excellence.
– Unknown Author
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues.
– Lee Lacocca
The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
– Henry Drummond
No man is wise enough by himself.
– Plautus
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Talent Wins Games Quotes
One of the reasons teamwork is so important is because it allows us to accomplish more than we could on our own.
When we work together, we can share ideas, resources, and skills to achieve a common goal. Additionally, teamwork helps build relationships and camaraderie among team members, which can lead to better communication and collaboration in the future.
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
– Queen Elizabeth II
The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
– John Bardeen
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.
– Emily Kimbrough
Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.
– Nicholas Sparks
A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
– Chuck Page
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
– Mia Hamm
The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.
– Jay Samit
It takes two flints to make a fire.
– Louisa May Alcott
Companies are communities. There’s a spirit of working together. Communities are not a place where a few people allow themselves to be singled out as solely responsible for
– Henry Mitzberg
Well done is better than well said.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
– Benjamin Franklin
There is no such thing as one-man show in a winning team.
– Jose B. Cabajar
Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
– Patrick Lencioni
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
– Midrash
Sometimes being on a team means being humble and putting others first. It has to be about the team and not the individual.
– Maggie White
You don’t build a business, you build people and then people build the business.
– Zig Ziglar
Best Teamwork Quotes
The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
– George Shinn
Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.
– John Katzenbach
Successful people must know that those he or she chooses to be on his or her team must share her vision. They must all be able to work toward a common purpose.
– Joe Allen and David Donaldson
Whenever ideas are shared, the result is always greater than the sum of the parts.
– Rich Willis
And, as the complexity of these problems increases, the consequences of ineffective solutions correspondingly increases. Thus, an understanding of teamwork is a fundamental step in assuring our future survival.
– Mark L. Knapp
The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
– Jack Ma
What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.
– Ted Kennedy
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has.
– Margaret Mead
The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.
– Lewis B. Ergen
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
– Theodore Roosevelt
Either we’re a team or we aren’t. Either you trust me or you don’t.
– Ally Carte
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
– John Maxwell
There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.
– Jason Fried
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
– Patrick Lencioni
Quotes about Teamwork
A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind.
– Bill Bethel
In business, nothing great can be done by one person alone (typically) but, with a team, great things can happen.
– Steven E Dunlop
In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words; people, product and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.
– Lee Iacocca
Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.
– Israelmore Ayivor
On our own, we are marshmallows and dried spaghetti, but together we can become something bigger.
– Unknown Author
Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.
– Douglas B. Reeves
Anyone who imagines he can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions.The fact is no one ascends alone.
– Lance Edward Armstrong
Teamplayer: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.
– Dennis Kinlaw
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
– Ethiopian Proverb
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
– Ryunosuke Satoro
You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
– Doug Floyd
If you can laugh together, you can work together.
– Robert Orben
There are no perfect people who can say to the world, ‘I don’t need anybody else.’ We need each other. We were made to work in teams!
– Rick Warren
The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.
– Bruce Coslet
Teamwork means that you are willing to compromise when it is best for the team to advance to reach their goals.
– Byron Pulsifer
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
– Denis Waitley
Quotes to inspire Collaboration
To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.
– John C. Maxwell
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
– James Cash Penney
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
– Steve Jobs
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
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
– African Proverb
The system will fail if the team is made up of people who need constant prodding to get the work done.
– Doug Loewe
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
– Halford Edward Luccock
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.
– Norman Shidle
Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than the right idea.
– Ed Catmull
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
What sets apart high-performance teams, however, is the degree of commitment, particularly how deeply committed the members are to one another.
– Jon R. Katzenbach & Douglas K. Smith
Successful teams cannot exist without accountability – high performance and accountability go hand-in-hand.
– Henry J. Evans
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Working together, we will continue to lay the foundation for a new generation of inclusive economic growth, expand economic opportunity for middle-class families, and ensure that innovative businesses have the support they need to thrive and grow in the years to come.
– Maggie Hassan
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
A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity – the team – the show – which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.
– Gary David Goldberg
Teamwork Makes The Dream Quotes
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.
– Patanjali
Teamwork is the results of groups have working together to effectively and efficiently achieving organizational tasks and vision and mission.
– Hiriyappa B
People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.
– Dr. Allan Fromme
A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.
– Simon Sinek
Teams are incredible things. No task is too great, no accomplishment too grand, no dream too far-fetched for a team. It takes teamwork to make the dream work.
– John C. Maxwell
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long term success.
– Ned Lautenbach
Organizations exist only for one purpose: to help people reach ends together that they couldn’t achieve individually.
– Robert H. Waterman
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.
– Rensis Likert
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.
– Alistair Cook
Success stories, whether by individuals or organizations, are almost always the result of collaborative effort among many people who are united by a single goal and vision.
– Rupert Johnson
The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.
– Sir Alex Ferguson
A Dream You Dream Alone Is Only A Dream. A Dream You Dream Together Is Reality.
– John Lennon/Yoko Ono
When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?
– Thomas Hood
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
– Joe Paterno
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.
– Pat Summitt
Strength of the Team Quotes
Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
– Paul Ryan
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
– Ted Turner
Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.
– Katzenbach & Smith
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
– Pat Riley
Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.
– Marvin Weisbord
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
– Virginia Burden
Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.
– Pat Summitt
People learn by what they see, not what they are told. Make sure whatever you are infecting your team with will be positive and push them forward.
– Brian Cagneey
If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.
– Askhari Johnson Hodari
We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.
– Bill Richardson
In the long history of humankind those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Moreover, in high-performance teams, the role of the team leader is less important and more difficult to identify because all members lead the team at different times.
– Douglas Smith; Jon Katzenbach
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
– John Donne
Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another’s skills and experiences, and look forward to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group.
– Patrick Lencioni
Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren’t divisions of labor. Don’t have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
– Patrick Lencioni
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
– Sonia Johnson
Inspiring Quotes About Teamwork
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
– Denis Waitley
Teamwork requires that everyone’s efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team’s energy takes on a life of its own.
– Pat Riley
The word team involves the roles and relationships between people working together. It involves dealing with their work and involves teaching them how to deal with conflict when it occurs.
– Steven Rosenthal
A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.
– Swahili Proverb
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
– Pat Riley
Yes, a true team player can reach 90 to 95 percent of their potential just by actively associating with a team. By shifting from the self-centered attitude to focusing on others led to tripling my accomplishments.
– S. Kumar
Great things are done by a series of small things that are brought together.
– Vincent Van Gogh
Without teamwork, there is no way that the company is going to experience success. In teams, individuals will work together and accomplish a lot more that what they do by themselves.
– Michael Welton
Teamwork is mainly about situational leadership, letting the person with the relevant core competency for a situation take leadership.
– Author Unknown
Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable
– Chris Bradford
Nobody can defeat you when you all are working together.
– Jason Pierre-Paul
There’s no great chef without a great team.
– Daniel Boulud
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Many hands make light work.
– John Heywood
Building teams is a process just like building a house. When building a house, you must first build a strong foundation before putting the walls and roof up.
– Allan Jones
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we‘; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we‘ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
– Peter F. Drucker
Quotes for Team Success
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
– Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
– Stephen Covey
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
– Helen Keller
Three, helping one another, bear the burden of six.
– Latin Proverb
And when members of a team have high-quality connections, they may also feel more safety and trust, resulting in greater cooperation and coordination.
– Lisa Broesch-Weeks
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
– Napolean Hill
It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone.
– Anonymous
Trust your team. Let others do their work so that you may concentrate wholly on doing your own.
– Gene King
Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.
– Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
A leader must inspire or his team will expire.
– Orrin Woodward
A “just a job” employee does just enough to keep their job while complaining about what’s not fair or right at work. A “team player” works positively together with everyone to get the job done the best way possible. See the difference?
– Ty Howard
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
– Isaac Newton
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
– Andrew Carnegie
The path to greatness is along with others.
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
– Theodore Roosevelt
Good teams becomes great ones, when the members trust each other enough to surrender the “me” for the “we“.
– Phil Jackson
Quotes to build a Great Team
A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.
– Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.
Teamwork makes the dream work.
– Bang Gae
Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you.
– Kris A. Hiatt
Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.
– Ted Sundquist
The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.
– Phil Jackson
Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
– Justin Sewell
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
– Vince Lombardi
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Innovation at Apple has always been a team game. It has always been a case where you have a number of small groups working together.
– Jonathan Ive
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point but no further; cooperation is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
– Franklin Roosevelt
Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
– Mattie Stepanek
If you delegate tasks, you create followers. If you delegate authority, you create leaders.
– Craig Groeshcel
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
– Stephen Covey
Working together works.
– Dr. Rob Gilbert
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 nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
– Margaret Carty
Motivational Teamwork Quotes
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
– Harriet Woods
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
– Bahá’u’lláh
We’re all working together; that’s the secret.
– Sam Walton
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.
– Doug Conant
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
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Teams share the burden and divide the grief.
– Doug Smith
Collaborate with people you can learn from.
– Pharrell
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
– Alexis Carrel
Individual commitment to a group effort – that’s what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
– Vince Lencioni
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
– Steve Jobs
Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
I can do things you cannot. You can do things I cannot. Together we can do great things.
You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
– A. A. Milne
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
You will never win if you never begin.
– Helen Rowland
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Final thoughts on teamwork
If you’re looking to build a strong team or inspire collaboration in your group, these teamwork quotes will do the trick.
- “Not finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.” — Patrick Lencioni
- “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “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
- We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now. – Martin Luther King, Jr
- There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals. ― Idowu Koyenikan
- The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. ― Phil Jackson
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