Inspiring Team Building: 50 Quotes to Unite and Motivate Your Team

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

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

- Kurt Koffka

"The greatest asset of a company is its people."

- Jorge Paulo Lemann

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

- Margaret Carty

"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

"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

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

- Orrin Woodward

"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."

- John Rockefeller

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

- NAPOLEON HILL

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Doug Conant

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

"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

"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

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"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

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Mike Krzyzewski

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Harry S Truman

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

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

- Tim Notke

"Without teamwork, there is no way that the company is going to experience success. In teams, individuals will work together and accomplish a lot more than what they do by themselves."

- Michael Welton

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Max McKeown

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

- Margaret Carty

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"The key thing is really aligning everybody so they all understand where you’re going."

- Eytan Lenko

"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

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

- Midrash

"A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all."

- Jacqueline Novogratz

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

- James Cash Penney

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

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

- Simon Mainwaring

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

- Lee Iacocca

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

- Rollo May

"Communication works for those who work at it."

- John Powell

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

- Epictetus

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

- James Humes

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

"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

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

"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

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

- Thomas Stallkamp

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand."

- Emily Kimbrough

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

- Brian Tracy

"Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality."

- John C Maxwell

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

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

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- George Shinn

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

- Sir Isaac Newton

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

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

- Virginia Burden

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

- Cicero

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"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

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Biz Stone

"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 good as all of us."

- G.S. Patton

"We are all here because we need each other."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Collaboration is the engine that drives innovation."

- Joel Brown

"The best teamwork comes from men who are working as a team because they respect the man next to them."

- Paul J. Meyer

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

- Maryanne Radmacher

"Unity is strength, division is weakness."

- Kwame Nkrumah

"What makes the difference between a team and a group of people working together is the trust, the mutual respect, and the sense of shared purpose that team members have for each other."

- Virgil

"Leadership is about shaping a vision, aligning people, and empowering them to go beyond their perceived limitations."

- A.G. Lafley

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

- Tim Cook

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

- Satya Nadella

"Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change."

- Brene Brown

"We are all interdependent. None of us can go it alone."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Andrew Carnegie

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"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

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

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

- Michelle Obama

"There is no shame in asking for help. Asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness."

- Reshma Saujani

"You don’t overcome challenges by avoiding them. You overcome them by confronting them."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"Failure is a necessary part of growth. It’s a stepping stone to success. You can’t avoid it, but you can learn from it."

- Sarah Blakely

"If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

- Elon Musk

"Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable."

- Chris Bradford

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

- James Cash Penney

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsleigh

"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 best way to predict the future is to invent it."

- Mark Cuban

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

- Anonymous

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

- Anonymous

"What separates successful people from others is an extra. Ordinary effort is rarely enough."

- Indra Nooyi

"Fear of failure is a prison. It keeps us from even trying."

- Tim Ferriss

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

- George MacDonald

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

- Warren Bennis

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Ted Sundquist

"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

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

- Barbara Corcoran

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

- Chuck Page

"Failure is simply feedback. We need to learn from it and change."

- Seth Godin

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

"There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength."

- Pat Riley

"What’s dangerous is not to evolve."

- Jeff Bezos

"Victory goes to those who can endure hardship the longest."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"A big mistake is to make a small thing out of a mistake."

- Ed Catmull

"Failure doesn’t define you; it refines you."

- Noelle LeBlanc

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

- Robert Orben

"No one ever achieved greatness being mediocre."

- Reed Hastings

"Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself."

- Stephen Hawking

"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."

- Don Herold

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

- African Proverb

"If work isn’t fun, you’re not playing on the right team."

- Frank Sonnenberg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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