Inspiring Team Quotes: A Collection to Motivate and Unite

"Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom."

- Warren Buffett

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- African Proverb

"Success is best when it's shared."

- Howard Schultz

"The bigger the dream, the more important the team."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Robert Schuller

"Communication works for those who work at it."

- John Powell

"Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication."

- Mike Krzyzewski

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

- Simon Sinek

"Ego is the ultimate killer on a team."

- Patrick Lencioni

"Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO."

- Max McKeown

"There is no such thing as a ‘one-man show’ in a winning team."

- Jose B. Cabajar

"Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it."

- Midrash

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

- Mark Sanborn

"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes reality."

- Joe Paterno

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

- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

"You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do."

- Henry Ford

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

- Sun Tzu

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

- Barack Obama

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

- Tony La Russa

"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

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prison 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

"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

"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

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Simon Mainwaring

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"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. 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

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

- Garrett Camp

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

- Helen Keller

"Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"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

"What is important is that we make sure to work together, that we understand our strength comes from unity and not division."

- Barack Obama

"There’s nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back."

- Billy Martin

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

- Mike Krzyzewski

"Ignore the people who tell you it won’t work and hire people who embrace your vision."

- Michael Dell

"Whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

"Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning."

- Bill Gates

"I think team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed."

- LeBron James

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Helen Keller

"I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else."

- Lionel Messi

"Two heads are definitely better than one, and by sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge."

- Richard Branson

"Don’t be afraid of saying goodbye to wrong-fit team members—design the team you want."

- Shannon Waller

"The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together, can do extraordinary things."

- Barack Obama

"In union, there is strength."

- Aesop

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but you want someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

- Oprah Winfrey

"30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal."

- Jack Ma

"The easiest thing a team will ever do is lift the trophy, the hard part is everything before that part."

- Chris Bosch

"Teamwork is hard; the goal you are trying to achieve is challenging; that’s why you need a team."

- Tyler Waye

"Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?"

- Adam Grant

"Teams aren’t always the happiest groups; they don’t always make life easier, but when push comes to shove, a good team trusts each other."

- Tyler Waye

"Humans have an innate need to belong- teamwork reinforces belonging."

- Baumeister and Leary

"I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes, I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win."

- LeBron James

"If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Phil Jackson

"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

"Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors."

- Elon Musk

"Meetings should be like salt – a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation."

- Jason Fried

"Build structures to stick together, build trust even when you don’t think it matters, and foster leadership that will push you from a plateau to the peak."

- Tyler Waye

"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as is giving people that power."

- Mark Zuckerberg

"Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you’re going to make this the best deal for all parties."

- Natalie Massenet

"To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can’t guarantee it just by following someone else’s formula."

- Richard Branson

"Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team."

- John C. Maxwell

"The world needs leadership, but the leadership is about working together."

- Jack Ma

"Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason."

- LeBron James

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

- Steve Jobs

"Everyone has an idea, but it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea."

- Jack Dorsey

"It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours, and you’ll drift in that direction."

- Warren Buffett

"We’re all working together, that’s the secret."

- Sam Walton

"If you’re building a company, you’ve got to gather great people. I mean, all a company is is a group of people that have gathered together to create a product or service."

- Elon Musk

"The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings."

- Thomas Sowell

"Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful."

- Jeff Bezos

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish."

- Sam Walton

"The motivation of almost 90,000 individuals working towards a single objective."

- Amancio Ortega

"You cannot train alone and expect to run a fast time. There is a formula: 100% of me is nothing compared to 1% of the whole team. And that’s teamwork. That’s what I value."

- Eliud Kipchoge

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

- Biz Stone

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

- Sir Isaac Newton

"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

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Michael Jordan

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

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

- Helen Keller

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Saji Ijiyemi

"We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end."

- Woodrow T. Wilson

"A team is not a group of people working together. It is a group of people working entirely towards a shared goal."

- Patrick Lencioni

"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities."

- Stephen Covey

"The beauty of teamwork is that no one person gets the credit. This is the magic of synergy."

- Uzodinma Iweala

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

- Joe Echevarria

"The whole of science is an edifice built on the work of many, not of one."

- Charles F. Kettering

"None of us can achieve our full potential alone, and we will all ultimately go further with the help of others."

- Margaret Mead

"Great teams are not made up of great individuals."

- Jim Collins

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

- G.S. Patton

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

- Arabella Weir

"A great team is a group of people with complementary skills who have a collaborative spirit and a commitment to a common purpose."

- Suzy Welch

"Unity is strength, division is weakness."

- Kwame Nkrumah

"There is no ‘I’ in team, but there is in win."

- Mike Singlaub

"Teams that succeed have healthy trust, mutual respect, and a shared sense of purpose."

- Maryanne Radmacher

"When you’ve got a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given without ever realizing the potential of what they could achieve."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

- Margaret Carty

"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

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

- Russel Honore

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

"What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis."

- W. Edwards Deming

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

- Idowu Koyenikan

"It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Everyone you work with, in order to achieve a goal, must have something to lose if it is not realised and something to gain if it is realised. These are the people that are going to stick around you through thick and thin until the job is done."

- Saidi Mdala

"Team performance is directly proportional to team stability. Focus on building and maintaining a stable team. Stability reduces friction and increases credibility and confidence."

- Salil Jha

"A leaders job is to ELEVATE the team, not delegate the team. Elevate your team to take initiative because real leadership is when you can create a culture of self-leadership within your team."

- Janna Cachola

"Each of us must make it our priority and personal responsibility to stay in harmony with our fellowman. Harmony is not just about creating a pleasant environment; it produces synergy. The best way to explain synergy is to say that a hand is much more effective than five fingers working independently."

- Deborah Smith Pegues

"When you switch your focus from the “we” to the “me”, the goal from “team” to “self”, you upset the balance of the whole. Consequentially, that redistribution of effort impedes success."

- Carlos Wallace

"Telling your team what to do is showmanship. Showing people how to do it is leadership."

- Janna Cachola

"Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams."

- Israelmore Ayivor

"People who feel excluded get angry and act out their anger in the team. No man is an island, no person can function isolated from the group. When you create a team, any kind of team, inclusion is fundamental."

- Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.

"Social context and NOT individual abilities drives performance, success or failure of a team or a project."

- Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.

"As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know."

- Jane Ripley

"There is no team without the individual members; an individual can never be a team."

- Michael Joling

"Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain."

- Jane Ripley

"Team spirit promotes greater accomplishment."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas."

- Tony Dovale

"We now live in a time when PEOPLE and profits must become equally valuable in the corporate leaders Mindset. Rethink your Leadership Culture to become a conscious, high performance organisation."

- Tony Dovale

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- H.E. Luccock

"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

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

- Henry Ford

"Politeness is the poison of collaboration."

- Edwin Land

"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

"You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins."

- Jim Stovall

"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

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Kurt Koffka

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

- Norman Shidle

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

"One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but teamwork dynamites."

- Jin Kwon

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Norman Shidle

"My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Phil Jackson

"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

"be the leaders we wish we had."

- Simon Sinek

"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 is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you."

- Kris A Hiatt

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

- Henry Ford

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Success is a team sport. Collaboration and effective communication are essential."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Steve Jobs

"Our greatest innovations come from teams who have the courage to experiment and learn."

- Satya Nadella

"Real leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could."

- Tim Cook

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

- Terry Orlick

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"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

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

- Tahir Shah

"Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together."

- Brené Brown

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"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

"You don't win with the best talent - you win with the five players who are able to play well together."

- Sportscaster

"What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you’re a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?"

- Laszlo Bock

"You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough."

- Robert Crandall

"It's amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit."

- Robert Yates

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"The greatest danger a team faces isn't that it won't become successful, but that it will, and then cease to improve."

- Mark Sanborn

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

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

- Mark Sanborn

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."

- Doug Floyd

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything."

- George Lois

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

- Robert Orben

"No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything."

- B. Dodge

"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."

- John Cleese

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

"The world will be solved by millions of small things."

- Pete Seeger

"The American Indians were Communists. They were. Every anthropologist will tell you they were Communists. No rich, no poor. If somebody needed something the community chipped in."

- Pete Seeger

"The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals."

- Rensis Likert

"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit."

- Robert Yates

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

- Swahili proverb

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

- Tahir Shah

"No man is wise enough by himself."

- Titus Maccius Plautus

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

- Michael Jordan

"Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others."

- Jon Gordon

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

- Cari Tuna

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Hope Solo

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

- James Cash Penney

"Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal."

- Ava DuVernay

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

- Elon Musk

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."

- Charles F. Kettering

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

- Shonda Rhimes

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Madeleine Albright

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

- Booker T. Washington

"When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time."

- Dr. Dre

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

"We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in."

- Arianna Huffington

"Hard work beats talent if talent doesn't work hard."

- Tim Notke

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

"THINK, UNITE, ACT"

- Children of the World 2000

"You’ve got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be."

- Janet Fitch

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."

- Babe Ruth

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."

- Denis Waitley

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

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

- George Shinn

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

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

- Thomas Stallkamp

"Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

"Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to achieve your goals."

"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link."

"It takes a village to raise a child."

"Only through teamwork can an individual transcend and soar the limitations of his own personal limitations."

"Teamwork doesn't tolerate the inconvenience of distance."

"Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we."

"The basic building block of good teambuilding is for a leader to promote the feeling that every human being is unique and adds value."

"We are most effective as a team when we compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear."

"The strength of one’s resolve can carry one across great distances, but nothing stands in the path of collective will."

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."