100+ Inspirational Quotes for Collaboration: Fuel Your Teamwork Spirit

"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it."

- H.E. Luccock

"To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless."

- Mike Krzyzewski

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."

- Phil Jackson

"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison."

- James Cash Penney

"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

"Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there."

- Virginia Burden

"Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus."

- Simon Mainwaring

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

"Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth."

- Amit Ray

"Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success."

- Ted Sundquist

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

- Margaret Carty

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."

- Napoleon Hill

"I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."

- Jean-Francois Cope

"The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other."

- Thomas Stallkamp

"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

"Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team."

- Patrick Lencioni

"None of us is as smart as all of us. Trust in collective intelligence leads to triumph."

- Ken Blanchard

"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."

- Tony Robbins

"Communication is your ticket to success, if you pay attention and learn to do it effectively."

- Theo Gold

"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."

- Lee Iacocca

"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."

- Archie Griffin

"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing."

- Rollo May

"Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development."

- Peter Shepherd

"I am a big believer in the power of a team. A good team can win a championship if they have the fundamentals and work together as one."

- Howard Schultz

"Communication works for those who work at it."

- John Powell

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"The best teamwork comes from those who are working independently toward one goal in unison."

- James Cash Penney

"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

"It's about trust. Trusting your team, knowing that they will do everything in their power to not let you down, and vice versa."

- Mike Krzyzewski

"Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work."

- Warren Bennis

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else – and trust they will do the same."

- Booker T. Washington

"Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades."

- Simon Mainwaring

"My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts."

- Steve Jobs

"Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well-motivated individual."

- Bill Gates

"Collaboration is much like a birth. The painful process of delivery pales against the joy of seeing your baby take the first breath."

- Jim Tamm

"The speed of the team is the speed of the boss. The team's trust in their leader can accelerate the pace of work."

- Barbara Corcoran

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade. Trust your fellow teammates to create the canopy."

- Chuck Page

"Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect."

- Mori Taheripour

"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 group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others."

- Norman Shidle

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"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

"The whole is greater than the sum of the parts."

- Kurt Koffka

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."

- Epictetus

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

- Peter Drucker

"Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence."

- Mike Schmoker

"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know."

- Jim Rohn

"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."

- Mattie Stepanek

"The whole is other than the sum of the parts."

- Kurt Koffka

"Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."

- Stephen Covey

"Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."

- Patrick Lencioni

"A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind."

- Bill Bethel

"Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

"The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team."

- Lewis B. Ergen

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."

- Tony Robbins

"The art of communication is the language of leadership."

- James Humes

"Great communication begins with connection."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

- George Bernard Shaw

"None of us is as good as all of us."

- G.S. Patton

"You need a high degree of synchronization and the ability to orchestrate a big team. That’s an important part of leadership."

- Satya Nadella

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is a success."

- Henry Ford

"Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

"In the end, a great leader is only known by the impact he or she has on others."

- Jim Stovall

"Surround yourself with a trusted and loyal team. It makes all the difference."

- Alison Pincus

"I’ve always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."

- Lee Iacocca

"The best team is not the team with the best players, but the team that plays best together."

- Jamie Dimon

"The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization."

- James Cash Penney

"A group of people get together and exist as an institution we call a company so they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately – they make a contribution to society."

- David Packard

"The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion."

- A.G. Lafley

"To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace."

- Doug Conant

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity."

- Nat Turner

"A team differs from a group of people who work together because it consists of individuals who trust one another. A team consists of individuals who rely on each other through trust."

- Simon Sinek

"The most effective teams succeed not because of their talent but through their communication skills."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"All of us together possess greater intelligence than any single individual within us."

- Ken Blanchard

"Together we become strong because teamwork and collaboration enable us to achieve remarkable outcomes."

- Mattie Stepanek

"When we work together our accomplishments multiply greatly compared to what we achieve alone."

- Helen Keller

"One person alone cannot accomplish great things in business. They're done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

"The success of major business achievements always requires the combined effort of several people. They’re done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

"Success naturally emerges when people move forward together as one cohesive unit."

- Henry Ford

"Our achievements are minimal when we work alone but reach great heights when we unite."

- Helen Keller

"You can do what I cannot do. I can do what you cannot do. Together we can do great things."

- Mother Teresa

"When everyone moves together toward a common goal success becomes inevitable."

- Henry Ford

"Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."

- Mattie Stepanek

"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

"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things."

- Mother Teresa

"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

"Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."

- Patrick Lencioni

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. 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

"Working with others is, in my mind, the future of business. You have a larger audience, more ideas, shared risk, shared workload and you will be getting a portion of something greater than had you done it alone."

- Seth Nichol

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it’s you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself."

- Steven Spielberg

"Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating together."

- Simon Mainwaring

"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

"Alone we can do do so little; together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life forever."

- Amy Poehler

"If people work together in an open way with porous boundaries - that is, if they listen to each other and really talk to each other - then they are bound to trade ideas that are mutual to each other and be influenced by each other. That mutual influence and open system of working creates collaboration."

- Richard Thomas

"Individually, we’re one drop. Together, we’re an ocean."

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I truly believe when we stand together we stand a chance."

- Korie Robertson

"Achieving great results becomes possible when you focus on collective success instead of individual recognition."

- Harry S. Truman

"Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration."

- Mike Rutherford

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

"The path to success isn't through my lizard brain, it's through high quality collaboration and making good stuff and understanding difficult situations fully enough to come up with good (or even great) solutions quickly."

- Hank Green

"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth."

- Baha'U'Llah

"Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results."

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

"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 best way to promote and protect opportunity is through collaboration, consensus-building, and pragmatic problem-solving. Throughout nearly 30 years in public service, I have approached tough challenges by making room for as many people as possible around the table in search of common ground."

- Tom Perez

"I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration."

- Alain de Botton

"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."

- Golda Meir

"You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and all the art direction and the costume, everything shrieks collaboration."

- Ken Loach

"One cannot exist as a self-made person. The achievement of your objectives requires the support and assistance of other people."

- George Shinn

"The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community."

- Kenneth G Wilson

"Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really."

- Antony Starr

"Our method was to develop integrated products, and that meant our process had to be integrated and collaborative"

- Steve Jobs

"The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration."

- Adam Braun

"Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team."

- Brian Tracy

"There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others."

- George Shinn

"Teamwork provides the benefit of having the support of others by your side."

- Margaret Carty

"One finger cannot lift a pebble."

- Hopi proverb

"No individual can win a game by himself."

- Pele

"Let us all be the leaders we wish we had."

- Simon Sinek

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable."

- Kenyan Proverb

"A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take."

- Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.

"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 Drucker

"It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."

- Charles Darwin

"The best way to predict the future is to create it together."

- Joe Echevarria

"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

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington

"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you."

- Althea Gibson

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

- Isaac Newton

"When you hand good people possibility, they do great things."

- Biz Stone

"The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the worldwide scientific community."

- Kenneth G Wilson

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

"Going solo lets you move at high speed. Teamwork enables long-term progress toward shared objectives."

- African Proverb

"We rise by lifting others"

- Robert Ingersoll

"If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?"

- Matthew Woodring Stover

"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Our destiny is not written for us, it’s written by us"

- Barack Obama

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

- Harry S. Truman

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi

"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, a.k.a Bono

"The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

- Margaret Carty

"Teamwork contains no ‘I’ but ‘win’ includes it."

- Michael Jordan

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved."

- George MacDonald

"Your success will reach its peak fastest when you focus on helping other people achieve their goals."

- Napolean Hill

"Every member of the team contributes to the overall team strength. The team benefits from the individual strength of each member."

- Phil Jackson

"Optimal teamwork emerges when individuals independently pursue the same objective together."

- James Cash Penney

"Without inspirational leadership teams will fail to survive."

- Orrin Woodward

"Efficiency means doing things correctly while effectiveness means selecting the right tasks and combined they establish effective teamwork."

- Peter Drucker

"In teamwork, silence isn't golden. It's deadly."

- Mark Sanborn

"Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Unity is strength. When there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."

- Mattie Stepanek

"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better."

- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

"Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long-term success."

- Ned Lautenbach

"Success is best when it's shared."

- Howard Schultz

"Individuals shape into a team when they learn first about one another as human beings and then grow from that understanding into a sense of who they can become together. In the start-up, plan activities that allow team members to relate to one another on a human level wherein they discover each other’s skills, talents, and anything else they bring that will help achieve the goals of the work ahead. This sets the stage for self-organization and cross-functional behavior."

- Lyssa Adkins

"There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals."

- Idowu Koyenikan

"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

"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

"Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers."

- Pat Riley

"What you’re building never matters as much as who you’re building it with."

- Tony Fadell

"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

"Be fast, be first, but never be alone. Nothing can replace the value of teamwork."

- Farshad Asl

"You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they are much less effective than a team where there is less native ability but a higher degree of teamwork and cohesion."

- Stewart Butterfield

"Not finance, not a strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare."

- Patrick Lencioni

"When a team is in conflict and is not making progress, try declaring one minute’s silence. This is a very challenging and powerful technique. The reflection that the individuals engage in during this minute is undistracted and seems to bring them face-to-face with their integrity. At the end of the silence, someone will usually take the risk and say what needs to be said, thus unblocking the team."

- Myles Downey

"I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else."

- Abby Wambach

"It’s better to have a great team than a team of greats."

- Simon Sinek

"It’s not the quality of the man, it’s the quality of the team."

- Garth Stein

"A team has to demand greatness from itself."

- Jeff Sutherland

"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."

- John Wooden

"Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives."

- Tom J. Bouchard

"For a team to experience more of its potential, the interference must be reduced. Interference in a team might include the following: Lack of trust in other team members; Fear of ridicule; Fear of being dominated; Pursuit of personal agendas; Need to lead; Lack of clarity about the task or the goals; Pursuit of incongruent goals; Hidden agendas; Not understanding (or distrusting) each other’s intentions; No agreed process for working together; An absence of agreed ground rules; Rivalries; No listening; No meaningful collective work; Beliefs and positions (‘this is how things are or should be’)."

- Myles Downey

"'Take it to the team.' Take any perceived problem to the team. They know what’s really happening and what to do about it. Everyone can rely on the cadence agile gives them to consider such problems. It’s called the retrospective."

- Lyssa Adkins

"A ScrumMaster who takes teams beyond getting agile practices up and running into their deliberate and joyful pursuit of high performance is an agile coach."

- Lyssa Adkins

"A project manager and an agile coach are not even as much alike as a house cat and a jaguar. They are simply not in the same family. A project manager plans and controls, supervising throughout. A coach guides. A project manager’s success equals the success of the project. An agile coach’s success equals the team’s continual improvement and their pursuit of high performance. The two are focused on completely different things and thus act completely differently."

- Lyssa Adkins

"Scrum embraces uncertainty and creativity. It places a structure around the learning process, enabling teams to assess both what they’ve created and, just as important, how they created it. The Scrum framework harnesses how teams actually work and gives them the tools to self-organize and rapidly improve both speed and quality of work."

- Jeff Sutherland

"Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Working together enables us to learn more than we can by ourselves."

- Paul Solarz

"The collective intelligence of a team surpasses the individual knowledge of any single person."

- Eric Schmidt

"Throughout history people who mastered collaboration have consistently been the most successful."

- Charles Darwin

"The first step to unity is coming together but real progress happens when people stay united and ultimate success is achieved when people work together."

- Edward Everett Hale

"Agile leaders lead teams, non-agile ones manage tasks."

- Jim Highsmith

"When dealing with yourself rely on your intelligence but approach others with emotional intelligence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Harmony requires diverse notes rather than everyone singing the same one."

- Doug Floyd

"Teams share the burden—and divide the pain."

- Doug Smith

"To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, ‘Your end of the boat is sinking.'"

- Hugh Downs

"If you have never led or worked as part of high performing teams, you have missed one of the best experiences of your professional career."

- Fred Wilson

"Strong and cohesive teams thrive when leaders highlight how much they all have in common, not how much he or she stands above from the crowd."

- Moira Alexander

"A group becomes teammates when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others."

- Norman Shidle

"People who concentrate on their tasks rather than searching for success typically achieve their goals, particularly when they work in unison."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The magic of teams is a double-edged sword once organizations get big: some of the same traits that make an adaptable team great can make it incompatible with the structure it serves."

- Stanley McChrystal

"Leadership requires respect and inspiration, not physical aggression."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I have been amazed to see what happens when teams are only ‘sort of clear’ about what they are trying to achieve rather than ‘really clear.'"

- Greg McKeown

"In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly."

- Mark Sanborn

"I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Our love is so big. It has room for everybody."

- Cari Tuna

"There is no such thing as a self-made man. Oracle’s Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers."

- Larry Ellison

"Collaborate with people you can learn from."

- Pharrell

"Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick."

- Brian Eno

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one that they sprung up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Leadership within your team does not require holding an official title."

- Robin Sharma

"I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Every once in a while you hear an expert that says team chemistry is overrated. You just write that person off."

- Tony La Russa

"There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others."

- Mandy Hale

"You are not the work you do; you are the person you are."

- Toni Morrison

"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

"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

"Decency is avoiding disrespect, not avoiding disagreement. Integrity is trying to get it right, not being right."

- Adam Grant

"I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I’m changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"As far as WeWork is concerned, we're not competing with co-working spaces; we're not competing with office suites. We're competing with work. We think there's a new way of working in the world, and it's just better. For the millenials and everybody that understands collaboration and the sharing economy, that's just the right way for them."

- Adam Neumann

"We must nurture creative scientists in an environment that encourages interactions and collaborations across different fields, and support research free from weighty bureaucracies."

- Ahmed Zewail

"Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do."

- Robert Schuller

"You are either supporting the vision or supporting division."

- Saji Ijiyemi

"Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration."

- Stephen Sondheim

"Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation."

- Vaclav Smil

"We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will."

- Neville Chamberlain

"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

"Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen."

- Akwaeke Emezi

"The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is."

- Gerhard Gschwandtner

"The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard."

- Bill Gates

"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."

- Jim Hightower

"Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity."

- Ram Dass

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

- Rudyard Kipling

"World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man."

- Jon Meacham

"We multiplies the power of I."

- Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

"I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."

- Jack Welch

"Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words."

- Josh Billings

"The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them."

- Stephen King

"Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability."

- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

"Politeness is the poison of collaboration."

- Edwin Land

"If you can laugh together, you can work together."

- Robert Orben

"In a team setting a boy can demonstrate his bravery independently. The cowardly find refuge within the membership of a gang."

- Mickey Mantle

"Enemies outside cannot harm you when you overcome your inner enemy."

- Winston Churchill

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others, and in teamwork, it breeds success."

- Cicero

"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot: together we can do great things."

"Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams."

"It takes both sides to build a bridge."

"The essence of collaboration transcends simple fusion of individual egos. Collaboration generates new ideas that emerge only after everyone comes together in the room."

"Success reaches its fullest potential through sharing while failures become more manageable when shared among a group."

"A successful team beats with one heart."

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."

"When different minds unite their efforts they create innovative ideas."

"Trust is the adhesive that binds a team together; without it, even the simplest tasks become difficult."

- Anonymous

"When a team trusts each other, success is a natural byproduct."

- Anonymous

"Good ideas are common. The rarity lies in finding individuals who unite to turn concepts into reality."

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our teamwork blossom."

"A good team needs three things: the right people, the right spirit, and a couple inside jokes."

"Group effort breaks down work tasks while significantly increasing achievement."

"Collaboration is the key to turning dreams into reality."

"A winning team isn’t just about skill; it’s about trust, commitment, and shared goals."

"Success is best when shared, and teamwork is the bridge that connects ambition to achievement."

"Collaboration is the key to unlocking the potential of individuals and achieving greatness as a team."

"Great teams turn vision into reality by working together with purpose and passion."

"A winning team is not just about talent but about unity and perseverance."

"Team success is built on trust, communication, and shared goals."

"Behind every great achievement is a team that refused to quit."

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more – it turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, and a group of individuals into a team."

"A team functions as an assembly of people who find it difficult to reach a consensus about lunch choices."

"I love teamwork. The notion of shared accountability avoidance appeals to me because it means everyone equally avoids responsibility."

"In the ecosystem of teamwork, gratitude is the nourishment that fuels growth and harmony."

"A team that cherishes gratitude as a core value is a team that stands strong in the face of adversity."

"Gratitude within a team is infectious; it spreads and cultivates an environment where everyone thrives."

"Being grateful for our team means recognizing every individual's effort as a vital piece of the puzzle."

"Thankfulness in a team is like a sunrise; it brightens up the day and points us to a new beginning."

"When gratitude becomes an essential part of our teamwork, our collaboration is natural and our successes are amplified."

"Gratitude is the invisible thread that weaves together the strength of a team."

"Gratitude is the glue that binds together the strength of teamwork."

"Every successful team has a foundation of gratitude for its shared efforts and victories."

"In the harmony of a team, gratitude is the melody that resonates with progress."

"Thankfulness within a team is a multiplier of motivation and morale."

"Being part of a team means being part of something bigger than oneself, and for that, we are perpetually grateful."

"We must work together as a team but someone else will end up doing the work."

"Many hands make light work. Especially when they’re not yours."

- Anonymous

"All of us combined cannot match the collective ignorance of each individual member."

"In the spirit of teamwork, every act of gratitude is a catalyst for more success and unity."

"A team's spirit is nurtured by the gratitude of its members, for it is thankfulness that makes success bloom."

"A grateful team is an empowered team, each 'thank you' lifting us to new heights."

"Acknowledgement and gratitude are the twin souls of a thriving team."

"The magic of teamwork begins with a simple 'thank you' and grows into endless possibilities."

"Teamwork becomes necessary because it provides an opportunity to shift responsibility to another person."

"Together we can do anything… after coffee."

- Anonymous