88 Powerful Inspirational Quotes on Team and Teamwork

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- H.E. Luccock

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Virginia Burden

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- African Proverb

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision."

- 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

"The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven."

- Knute Rockne

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

- Pat Riley

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Steve Jobs

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable."

- Kenyan Proverb

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

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

- G.S. Patton

"Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part."

- Casey Stengel

"No individual can win a game by himself."

- Pele

"Collaboration is multiplication."

- John C. Maxwell

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Tahir Shah

"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

"No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

"We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share."

- Rania Al-Abdullah

"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

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

"When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?"

- Thomas Hood

"Working together, we will."

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Lee Iacocca

"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Robert Orben

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

- Ben Franklin

"Teams do not seek consensus; they seek the best answer."

- John Katzenbach

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Margaret Mead

"It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Walt Disney

"I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort."

- J. Paul Getty

"What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us."

- Ted Kennedy

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

- Martin Luther King III

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- George Shinn

"As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another."

- Proverbs 27:17

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Biz Stone

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

"The path to greatness is along with others."

- Baltasar Gracian

"To be aware and present with each other at work is to create an environment where everyone can thrive."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Aristotle

"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

- Alexander the Great

"We rise by lifting others"

- Robert Ingersoll

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

- Booker T. Washington

"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

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."

- Woodrow Wilson

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

- Adam Grant

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

- Kurt Koffka

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

- Barack Obama

"Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity."

- Marie Curie

"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

"A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference."

- Eeyore

"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

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi

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

- Sir Isaac Newton

"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 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

"I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them."

- Nicolaus Copernicus

"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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Akwaeke Emezi

"Never confuse movement with action."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Sun Tzu

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

- Jim Hightower

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

- George Washington

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

- Spock

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