Inspiring Teamwork: A Collection of Motivational Quotes for the Workplace

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

- Ted Sundquist

"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t."

- Rikki Rogers

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"Give the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you."

- Madeline Bridges

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Someone, at some point, came up with this very bad idea that an ordinary individual couldn't make a difference in the world. I think that's just a horrible thing."

- John Skoll

"Iteration is the fundamental basis of all improvement."

- Mark Manson

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

- Sun Tzu

"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

"I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I'm changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

"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

"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

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

- Adam Grant

"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

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Eeyore

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Rania Al-Abdullah

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Henry Ford

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Napoleon Hill

"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

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

- Mark Sanborn

"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

"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

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Bill Bethel

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Amit Ray

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

- Mike Krzyzewski

"The whole is greater 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

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

- G.S. Patton

"The best teamwork comes from those 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

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

- Chuck Page

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Abby Wambach

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- George Shinn

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

"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

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

- Mark Sanborn

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Saji Ijiyemi

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Norman Shidle

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Success is best when it’s shared."

- Howard Schultz

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

- John Wooden

"To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness—not a threat to your position."

- Christine Caine

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Simon Sinek

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Virginia Burden

"You win with people."

- Woody Hayes

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

- Aristotle

"Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- H.E. Luccock

"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."

- Swedish Proverb

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

- Alison Pincus

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

- Peter F. Drucker

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

- Bill Bradley

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

- Victoria Osteen

"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

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Matthew Woodring Stover

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Casey Stengel

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

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Ted Kennedy

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

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Babe Ruth

"Working together, we will."

- Ronald Reagan

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

"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

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

- Spock

"You will reach your goals only with the help of others."

- George Shinn

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

- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

"The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team."

- Knute Rockne

"The path to greatness is along with others."

- Baltasar Gracian

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Tahir Shah

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

- Pat Riley

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

- Biz Stone

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Henry Ford

"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

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Joe Echevarria

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

- Kurt Koffka

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment."

- Seth Godin

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Woodrow T. Wilson

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."

- Whoopi Goldberg

"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished."

- Leslie Nielsen

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."

- Josh Billings

"Change is not a four letter word… but often your reaction to it is!"

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"The only way round is through."

- Robert Frost

"If you can dance and be free and not embarrassed you can rule the world."

- Amy Poehler

"You don't have to be great at something to start, but you have to start to be great at something."

- Zig Ziglar

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Thomas Stallkamp

"You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you."

- Barack Obama

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

- African Proverb

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

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

"A successful team beats with one heart."

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

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

- Anonymous

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

- Anonymous

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

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

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

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."