50 Inspirational Quotes That Celebrate Teamwork at Work

"Growth is never mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."

- James Cash Penney

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Matthew Woodring Stover

"To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost."

- Pat Summitt

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

- Mother Teresa

"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 is the ability to work together toward a common vision… It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Steve Jobs

"The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins."

- John C. Maxwell

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."

- Vince Lombardi

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Jamie Dimon

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Henry Ford

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

- African Proverb

"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

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Helen Keller

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Mike Krzyzewski

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"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

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

- Pat Riley

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

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

- Napoleon Hill

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

- John Wooden

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Booker T. Washington

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

"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

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

- Korie Robertson

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

- Joe Echevarria

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"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

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

- Abby Wambach

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- George Shinn

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

- H.E. Luccock

"Don’t take your culture for granted. There needs to be a constant renewal of values that lead to camaraderie."

- Mike Krzyzewski

"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."

- Amy Poehler

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

- Harry S. Truman

"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

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

- Margaret Carty

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

- Mark Sanborn

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

- Biz Stone

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

- Ken Blanchard

"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

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"We rise by lifting others"

- Robert Ingersoll

"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

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

- Thomas Stallkamp

"A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way."

- Proverb

"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

- Althea Gibson

"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it."

- Bear Bryant

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

- Robert Schuller

"When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing."

- Bo Schembechler

"Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"It all starts with a great idea and teamwork."

- Garrett Camp

"With an enthusiastic team, you can achieve almost anything."

- Tahir Shah

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Robert Orben

"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

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Sir Isaac Newton

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Virginia Burden

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

- Ted Sundquist

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

- Satya Nadella

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

- Mark Sanborn

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

- Kurt Koffka

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Barack Obama

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

- Simon Sinek

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

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

- Saji Ijiyemi

"The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be."

- Reid Hoffman

"Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job."

- Winston Churchill

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable."

- Kenyan Proverb

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."

- Mary Kay Ash

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi

"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."

- James Cash Penney

"We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves."

- Terry Orlick

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."

- Ken Blanchard

"A leader must inspire or his team will expire."

- Orrin Woodward

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

- Tony La Russa

"A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle."

- Japanese Proverb

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

"It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

- Elon Musk

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

- Ram Dass

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain

"When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself."

- Tibetan Proverb

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

"What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change."

- Madeleine Albright

"True heroes are made of hard work and integrity."

- Hope Solo

"Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right."

- Simon Mainwaring

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."

- Abraham Lincoln

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Elevate true productivity over the appearance of hard work."

- Scott Belsky

"People doing good work feel good and people doing exceptional work feel exceptional. Accomplishments contribute greatly to satisfaction."

- Mark Sanborn

"Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work."

- Dustin Moskovitz

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changes really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Mark Zuckerberg

"An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down."

- Reid Hoffman

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

- Mother Teresa

"Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term."

- Reed Hastings

"Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision."

- Jim Stovall

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."

- Brian Tracy

"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

- Arianna Huffington

"The only way round is through."

- Robert Frost

"Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else."

- Sara Blakely

"You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again."

- Pat Riley

"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde

"I want little girls to grow up knowing they can do anything, even play football."

- Jen Welter

"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."

- Jessica Savitch

"Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals."

- Amy Morin

"The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%."

- Rob Kalin

"Never confuse movement with action."

- Ernest Hemingway

"To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do."

- John Adams

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity"

- Sun Tzu

"Iteration is the fundamental basis of all improvement."

- Mark Manson

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

- Mandy Hale

"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

"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

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

- Jim Hightower

"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

"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

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

- Cari Tuna

"The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind."

- Joseph Stilwell

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

- Akwaeke Emezi

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"It’s better to be alone than in bad company."

- George Washington

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

- Anonymous

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."