Inspiring Teamwork: 50 Quotes to Motivate Your Workplace

"People working together can overcome many obstacles, often within themselves, and by doing so can make the world a better place."

- Mo Mowlam

"Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction."

- Criss Jami

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

- Biz Stone

"A business is like an automobile. Its people its wheels, their passion its fuel."

- Ajeet Sharma

"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

"The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone."

- John Bardeen

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

- James Cash Penney

"Teams are incredible things. No task is too great, no accomplishment too grand, no dream too far-fetched for a team. It takes teamwork to make the dream work."

- John Maxwell

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

- Mike Krzyzewski

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

- Russel Honore

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

"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

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

- Victoria Osteen

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

- Lance Armstrong

"One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his axe. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giving a shared taste for the sea, by the light of which you will see nothing contradictory but rather a community of love."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Times of stress and difficulty are not the times when men who are on the same side can afford to think overmuch about the extent of their differences. It is more profitable to think of points of agreement."

- John Henry Joshua Ellison

"Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it."

- Bill Bradley

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Michael Schumacher

"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

"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

"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

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

"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

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Margaret Carty

"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

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

- Mattie Stepanek

"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

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

- Saji Ijiyemi

"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you."

- Althea Gibson

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

- Proverb

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

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"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

"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

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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.

"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

"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

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

"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

"Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Helen Keller

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

"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

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Henry Ford

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable."

- Kenyan Proverb

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

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

- Joe Paterno

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Norman Shidle

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

- Max McKeown

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

- Robin Sharma

"No individual can win a game by himself."

- Pele

"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

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

- Chris Bradford

"The speed of the boss is the speed of the team."

- Lee Iacocca

"Be fast, be first, but never be alone. Nothing can replace the value of teamwork."

- Farshad Asl

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

- Bill Bethel

"Success is best when it's shared."

- Howard Schultz

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

- Kurt Koffka

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

- Stephen Covey

"What separates the good players from a great player is that a great player is willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction."

- Justin Sewell

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

- John Wooden

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

- Vince Lencioni

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"In business, nothing great can be done by one person alone (typically) but, with a team, great things can happen."

- Steven Dunlop

"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

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

- Robert Orben

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

- Pat Riley

"Teamwork means that you are willing to compromise when it is best for the team to advance to reach their goals."

- Byron Pulsifer

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

- Idowu Koyenikan

"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together."

- Vesta M. Kelly

"If Kingdoms wish to move quickly, they must go alone. If we wish to go far, we must go together."

- E.Y. Laster

"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

"Teamwork is a dance—engrossing to perform and exciting to watch."

- Christopher Peterson

"It’s not the quality of the man, it’s the quality of the team."

- Garth Stein

"Teamwork is not just working with each other, it is trusting each other."

- Amit Kalantri

"The answers we seek will never be found by you or by me. They can only be found by us."

- Sasha Kanthan

"Together, we will raise the dunes from the earth, and rain death from the sky. Together, we are capable of anything."

- Hafsah Faizal

"Even upon the waters of trial and tribulation, by building the ships of kinship, fellowship, leadership and mentorship, we become unsinkable."

- Brian S Woods

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input."

- Ogwo David Emenike

"Ants are successful creatures; they are successful because they know very well that the mind of the team is superior to the mind of the individual!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"The second you make it all about you, is the second you've already lost. It's about people - it always has been and it always will be."

- Chris Hill

"Teamwork builds trust and trust builds growth."

- Nazim Ambalath

"All for one and one for all."

- Alexandre Dumas

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

- Chuck Page

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

- Ted Sundquist

""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

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- African Proverb

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Ken Blanchard

""Many hands make light work.""

- John Heywood

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Thomas Stallkamp

""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

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Mike Schmoker

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

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

- A.G. Lafley

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

- Doug Conant

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

- Bill Bethel

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

- Jamie Dimon

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

- Alison Pincus

"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

"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

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

- G.S. Patton

"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

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

- Brené Brown

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."

- Jack Canfield

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"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

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

"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

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Phil Jackson

"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

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

- Satya Nadella

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Tim Cook

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Margaret Carty

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire."

- Oprah Winfrey

"It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once."

- Mark Cuban

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Terry Orlick

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

- Tahir Shah

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

- JC Penney

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Kurt Koffka

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

- Virginia Burden

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

- Amit Ray

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

- H.E. Luccock

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

- James Cash Penney

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

- Booker T. Washington

"Success can cause people to unlearn the habits that made them successful in the first place."

- Satya Nadella

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

- Charles F. Kettering

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

- Stephen Covey

"Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work."

- Dustin Moskovitz

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

- Earl Nightingale

"Every single failure has an equally great upside if you are willing to stay in the game."

- Barbara Corcoran

"There’s always an opportunity to make a difference."

- Michael Dell

"If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes backbone to lead the life you want."

- Richard Yates

"All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation."

- Max McKeown

"You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby."

- Larry Page

"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

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

- Babe Ruth

"You don’t achieve success, you attract success."

- Farshad Asl

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Virginia Burden

"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

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

- Denis Waitley

"Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear."

- Michelle Obama

"Giving up is the only sure way to fail."

- Gena Showalter

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength."

- Chris Bradford

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

- Janet Fitch

"Expect the unexpected. And whenever possible, be the unexpected."

- Lynda Barry

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Cari Tuna

"Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower."

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Anything is possible if you wish hard enough."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- African Proverb

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

"Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams."

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

"A team that cherishes gratitude as a core value is a team that stands strong in the face of adversity."

"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

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

""The strength of a team can often be the deciding factor between success and failure.""

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

"Gratitude within a team is infectious; it spreads and cultivates an environment where everyone thrives."

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

"When we learn how to work together versus each other things might start getting better."

"When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion."

"It takes both sides to build a bridge."

"Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder… Teamwork can be summed up in five short words: We believe in each other."

"It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone."