50 Inspirational Teamwork Quotes to Motivate and Unite Your Team

"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 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

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly."

- Bill Bradley

"Success is best when it’s shared."

- Howard Schultz

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

- Phil Jackson

"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

"A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other."

- Simon Sinek

"When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed."

- Russel Honore

"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, 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

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

- African Proverb

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Ted Sundquist

"When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back."

- Michael Schumacher

"When you need to innovate, you need collaboration"

- Marissa Mayer

"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old."

- Peter F. Drucker

"Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit."

- Helena Rubinstein

"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

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"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

"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

"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

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Kurt Koffka

"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

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

- Bill Gates

"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

"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

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

- Doug Conant

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

- A.G. Lafley

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Jamie Dimon

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

- Lee Iacocca

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

- Satya Nadella

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

- G.S. Patton

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

- Henry Ford

"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’s what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lencioni

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Tahir Shah

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"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

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team."

- Bud Wilkinson

"People achieve more as a result of working with others than against them."

- Dr. Allan Fromme

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- John Wooden

"Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us."

- Tom Wilson

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

"We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together."

- Victoria Osteen

"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

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

- Mattie Stepanek

"A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues."

- Lee Iacocca

"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

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Baha'U'Llah

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

- George Shinn

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

- Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.

"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

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

- Ken Blanchard

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Booker T. Washington

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Robert Orben

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

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

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Mark Sanborn

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

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

- Biz Stone

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

- Virginia Burden

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Never confuse movement with action."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- George Washington

"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

"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

"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

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

- Tony La Russa

"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

"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

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

- Akwaeke Emezi

"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

"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

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

- Ram Dass

"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

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

- Jim Hightower

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

- Pat Riley

"No team works out teamwork."

- Dwyane Wade

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

- Mike Krzyzewski

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

- Bill Bethel

"No individual can win a game by himself."

- Pele

"We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."

- Ben Franklin

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

- Proverb

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Terry Orlick

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

- Tahir Shah

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Kurt Koffka

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

- H.E. Luccock

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

- Alison Pincus

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary."

- Bruce Coslet

"Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect."

- Mori Taheripour

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

- Abby Wambach

"Ask your colleagues for help—early and often."

- Jill Konrath

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

- Thomas Stallkamp

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

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Jim Stovall

"Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no on ascends alone."

- Lance Armstrong

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

- Norman Shidle

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

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

- Amit Ray

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

- Simon Mainwaring

"We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you."

- Mary Kay Ash

"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

"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."

- Ethiopian Proverb

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

- Sir Isaac Newton

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

- Mike Schmoker

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

- Orrin Woodward

"Politeness is the poison of collaboration."

- Edwin Land

"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

"He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader."

- Aristotle

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

- James Cash Penney

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

- Rosalynn Carter

"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

"Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine."

- David Ogilvy

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings-and put compensation as a carrier behind it-you almost don’t have to manage them."

- Jack Welch

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."