Inspiring Quotes to Motivate Your Work Team

"A good leader takes a little more than their share of the blame, a little less than their share of the credit."

- Arnold H. Glasow

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

- John C. Maxwell

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

"To be a leader is to be a servant."

- Boris Johnson

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."

- Jack Welch

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual."

- Vince Lombardi

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

- Napoleon Hill

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It’s not about the cards you’re dealt, but how you play the hand."

- Randy Pausch

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves."

- Paul Solarz

"You don’t build a business. You build people, and people build the business."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Michael Jordan

"Together, we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"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

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Collaboration is the essence of life."

- Michael Dell

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Steve Jobs

"Success is best when it’s shared."

- Howard Schultz

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

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

- NAPOLEON HILL

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- African Proverb

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Walter Elliot

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

- John Wooden

"Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"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 takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- G.S. Patton

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

- Russel Honore

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be."

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Tim Notke

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"Teamwork: work together as if your life depends on it…it does!"

- Ron Swanson

"No individual can win a game by himself."

- Pele

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

- William James

"Collaboration is multiplication."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Simon Sinek

"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

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

- Biz Stone

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"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 always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Matthew Woodring Stover

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

- Pat Riley

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right."

- Napoleon Hill

"Quality is not an act; it’s a habit."

- Aristotle

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Jimmy Johnson

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

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

- Steve Jobs

"I'm a great believer in luck, and the harder I work, the more I have it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work."

- Stephen King

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

- Michael Jordan

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement."

- Charles Schwab

"Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune."

- Sam Walton

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it."

- Ralph Marston

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

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

- Alison Pincus

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

- Will Rogers

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

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

- C.S. Lewis

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Henry Ford

"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

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

"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

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

"You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself."

- David Beckham

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

- Charles Kingsleigh

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

- Michael Schumacher

"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

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

- Ted Kennedy

"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 appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret."

- Mary Kay Ash

"A goal without a plan is only a dream."

- Brian Tracy

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."

- Serena Williams

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"In union, there is strength."

- Aesop

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

- George Shinn

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Barack Obama

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

- Henry Ford

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace."

- Arianna Huffington

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Orrin Woodward

"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."

- Ethiopian Proverb

"The value of achievement lies in the achieving."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ted Sundquist

"Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit."

- Helena Rubinstein

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

- Peter F. Drucker

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

- John Rockefeller

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

- George Washington

"Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them."

- Marissa Mayer

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination."

- Chris Hadfield

"Recognition is a reward in itself. Any form of appreciation, even a small word, is important."

- Vikrant Massey

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

- Tahir Shah

"If you're alive, you're a creative person."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Amit Ray

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."

- Dalai Lama

"Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions."

- Paulo Coelho

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

"We are stronger together than we are alone."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"You add value to people when you value them."

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."

"There is no ‘I’ in team."

"A successful team beats with one heart."