100+ Inspirational Quotes for Collaboration: Fuel Your Teamwork Spirit

### Unlock the Power of Teamwork with These Inspirational Quotes Collaboration is the cornerstone of success in any endeavor. Whether you're leading a team, working on a project, or striving for a common goal, the right mindset can make all the difference. This curated collection of over 100 inspirational quotes about collaboration brings together wisdom from leaders, visionaries, and thinkers who understand the magic that happens when people unite. ### Why These Quotes Matter Each quote captures a unique perspective on teamwork, trust, unity, and shared purpose. From Vince Lombardi's insight on individual commitment to Steve Jobs' emphasis on collective achievement, these words inspire us to embrace cooperation and harness the strength of many. ### How to Use This Collection Use these quotes to motivate your team, spark meaningful conversations, or reflect on the value of working together. Whether you're seeking encouragement during challenging times or celebrating milestones, these timeless sayings remind us that together, we can achieve extraordinary results.

Wisdom from the Masters

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

- Patrick Lencioni

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Theo Gold

Teamwork

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

- Lee Iacocca

Teamwork

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

- Rollo May

Teamwork

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

- Peter Shepherd

Teamwork

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

- Ken Blanchard

Teamwork

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

- Jim Stovall

Leadership

"Communication works for those who work at it."

- John Powell

Teamwork

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

- Alison Pincus

Teamwork

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

- Lee Iacocca

Teamwork

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Teamwork

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

- James Cash Penney

Teamwork

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

- Jamie Dimon

Teamwork

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

- Patrick Lencioni

Teamwork

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

Teamwork

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

- Mike Krzyzewski

Teamwork

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

- H.E. Luccock

Teamwork

"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

Connection to Earth

"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

Teamwork

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

- Ken Blanchard

Teamwork

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

- Thomas Stallkamp

Teamwork

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

- Warren Bennis

Teamwork

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

- Margaret Carty

Teamwork

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

- Booker T. Washington

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- James Cash Penney

Teamwork

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

- Ted Sundquist

Success

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

- Virginia Burden

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- A.G. Lafley

Teamwork

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

- Chuck Page

Teamwork

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

- Doug Conant

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Epictetus

Teamwork

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

- Peter Drucker

Teamwork

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

- Bill Gates

Teamwork

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

- Jim Rohn

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect."

- Mori Taheripour

Teamwork

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

- James Humes

Teamwork

"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

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

- Norman Shidle

Teamwork

"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

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

- Kurt Koffka

Teamwork

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Teamwork

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

- Mike Schmoker

Teamwork

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

Teamwork

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

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

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

- Bill Bethel

Teamwork

"Great communication begins with connection."

- Oprah Winfrey

Teamwork

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Teamwork

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

- Stephen Covey

Teamwork

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

- G.S. Patton

Teamwork

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

- Kurt Koffka

Teamwork

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

- Mattie Stepanek

Teamwork

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

Teamwork

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

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Malala Yousafzai

Future

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

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

- Phil Jackson

Teamwork

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

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

- James Cash Penney

Teamwork

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

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

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

- Simon Mainwaring

Teamwork

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

- African Proverb

Teamwork

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

- Amit Ray

Teamwork

"Communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity."

- Nat Turner

Teamwork

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

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

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

- Satya Nadella

Leadership

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

- NAPOLEON HILL

Teamwork

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

- Tony Robbins

Teamwork

"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

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

- Margaret Mead

Teamwork

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

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

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

- Ken Blanchard

Teamwork

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

- Mattie Stepanek

Teamwork

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

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Mattie Stepanek

Teamwork

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

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

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

- Patrick Lencioni

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

Teamwork

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

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Mother Teresa

Teamwork

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

Teamwork

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

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Mother Teresa

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

"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

Growth

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

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

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

- George MacDonald

Teamwork

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

- Napolean Hill

Contribution

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

- Phil Jackson

Teamwork

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

- James Cash Penney

Teamwork

"Without inspirational leadership teams will fail to survive."

- Orrin Woodward

Leadership

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

- Peter Drucker

Productivity

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Teamwork

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

- Margaret Carty

Teamwork

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Teamwork

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Relationships

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

- Baha'U'Llah

Inspiration

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

- George Shinn

Teamwork

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

- Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.

Teamwork

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

Teamwork

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

Compassion

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

- Biz Stone

Teamwork

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

- Althea Gibson

Teamwork

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

- Korie Robertson

Belief in Self

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

- Joe Echevarria

Teamwork

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

- Brian Tracy

Teamwork

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

- Simon Sinek

Leadership

"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

Teamwork

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Golda Meir

Teamwork

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

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

"One finger cannot lift a pebble."

- Hopi proverb

Teamwork

"No individual can win a game by himself."

- Pele

Teamwork

"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

Leadership

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

- Charles Darwin

Teamwork

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

- Booker T. Washington

Compassion

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

- Isaac Newton

Teamwork

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

- Kenneth G Wilson

Teamwork

"We rise by lifting others"

- Robert Ingersoll

Teamwork

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

- Matthew Woodring Stover

Teamwork

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

- Barack Obama

Teamwork

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

- Harry S Truman

Success

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi

Connection to Earth

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Alain de Botton

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Antony Starr

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Harry S. Truman

Teamwork

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

- Margaret Carty

Teamwork

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

- African Proverb

Teamwork

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

- George Shinn

Teamwork

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable."

- Kenyan Proverb

Teamwork

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

- Mark Sanborn

Teamwork

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

- Stephen R. Covey

Teamwork

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

- Mattie Stepanek

Teamwork

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

- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Teamwork

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

- Ned Lautenbach

Teamwork

"Success is best when it's shared."

- Howard Schultz

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Idowu Koyenikan

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Pat Riley

Teamwork

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

- Tony Fadell

Teamwork

"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

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

- Farshad Asl

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Abby Wambach

Teamwork

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

- Simon Sinek

Teamwork

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

- Garth Stein

Teamwork

"A team has to demand greatness from itself."

- Jeff Sutherland

Teamwork

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

- John Wooden

Teamwork

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

- Tom J. Bouchard

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"'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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Teamwork

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

- Paul Solarz

Learning

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

- Eric Schmidt

Teamwork

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

- Charles Darwin

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Norman Shidle

Teamwork

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

- Toni Morrison

Self-awareness

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

- Mandy Hale

Compassion

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

- Tony La Russa

Teamwork

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Teamwork

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

- Saji Ijiyemi

Teamwork

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"Collaborate with people you can learn from."

- Pharrell

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Cari Tuna

Compassion

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership

"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

Teamwork

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Focus

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Teamwork

"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

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"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

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

- Doug Floyd

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

- Jim Highsmith

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

- Vaclav Smil

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Mark Sanborn

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"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

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

- Robin Sharma

Leadership

"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

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"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

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

- Angela Davis

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

- Adam Grant

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

- Doug Smith

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

- Hugh Downs

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"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

Leadership

"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

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

- Gerhard Gschwandtner

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"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

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"We multiplies the power of I."

- Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

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

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- Stephen King

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

- Josh Billings

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"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

Teamwork

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

- Jim Hightower

Courage

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

- Ram Dass

Teamwork

"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

Adversity

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

- Akwaeke Emezi

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

- Jack Welch

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Jon Meacham

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"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

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

- Robert Orben

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

- Anonymous

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"Politeness is the poison of collaboration."

- Edwin Land

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

- Anonymous

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

- Mickey Mantle

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

- Winston Churchill

Inner Peace

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

- Cicero

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"Together we can do anything… after coffee."

- Anonymous

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

- Anonymous

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Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

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

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

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"It takes both sides to build a bridge."

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

Creativity

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."

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

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"A successful team beats with one heart."

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

Creativity

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

Creativity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"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."

Gratitude

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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