50 Inspirational Work Quotes on Teamwork to Motivate Your Team

### Discover the Power of Teamwork Through Words of Wisdom Teamwork is the cornerstone of success in any organization. This curated collection of 50 inspirational work quotes on teamwork brings together the insights of legendary leaders, athletes, and thinkers who understand the true value of collaboration. From Michael Jordan's reminder that "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships" to Helen Keller's timeless truth, "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much," these quotes inspire unity, trust, and collective effort. ### Why Teamwork Matters Effective teamwork fuels innovation, drives productivity, and fosters a positive work environment. These quotes highlight how collaboration transforms individual efforts into extraordinary achievements. Whether you're a manager seeking to motivate your team or an individual looking for inspiration, this collection offers powerful reminders that together, we can accomplish more than we ever could alone.

Wisdom from the Masters

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Teamwork

"I’ve always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."

- Lee Iacocca

Teamwork

"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

Ambition

"In the end, a great leader is only known by the impact he or she has on others."

- Jim Stovall

Leadership

"You need a high degree of synchronization and the ability to orchestrate a big team. That’s an important part of leadership."

- Satya Nadella

Leadership

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

- Henry Ford

Focus

"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."

- Tony Robbins

Teamwork

"Communication is your ticket to success, if you pay attention and learn to do it effectively."

- Theo Gold

Teamwork

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

- Harry S Truman

Success

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

- James Humes

Teamwork

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Teamwork

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable."

- Kenyan Proverb

Teamwork

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

- Jim Rohn

Teamwork

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

- Booker T. Washington

Compassion

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

- Saji Ijiyemi

Teamwork

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

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

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

- Kurt Koffka

Teamwork

"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

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

Teamwork

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

- Lee Iacocca

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

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

- Ken Blanchard

Teamwork

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

- Jamie Dimon

Teamwork

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

- George MacDonald

Teamwork

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

- Mike Krzyzewski

Teamwork

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

- Patrick Lencioni

Teamwork

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

- Amit Ray

Teamwork

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

- NAPOLEON HILL

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- George Shinn

Teamwork

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

- Sir Isaac Newton

Knowledge

"Great communication begins with connection."

- Oprah Winfrey

Teamwork

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

Teamwork

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

- Mother Teresa

Teamwork

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

Future

"Communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity."

- Nat Turner

Teamwork

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

- Mattie Stepanek

Teamwork

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

- James Cash Penney

Teamwork

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

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

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

- John C. Maxwell

Teamwork

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

- Martin Luther King Jr

Teamwork

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

- Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork

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

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Winston Churchill

Teamwork

"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it."

- Bear Bryant

Teamwork

"When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself."

- Tibetan Proverb

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing."

- Bo Schembechler

Teamwork

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

- Mark Sanborn

Teamwork

"I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Teamwork

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

- Chuck Page

Teamwork

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"The way a team plays as a whole determines it’s 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."

- George Herman

Teamwork

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

- Kurt Koffka

Teamwork

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

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

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

- Abby Wambach

Teamwork

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

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

"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 Summit

Teamwork

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

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

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

- Mattie Stepanek

Teamwork

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

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Patrick Lencioni

Teamwork

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

Teamwork

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

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

- Bill Bethel

Teamwork

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

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

"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

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

- Ken Blanchard

Teamwork

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

Teamwork

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

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

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

- Thomas Stallkamp

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Patrick Lencioni

Teamwork

"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

"Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect."

- Mori Taheripour

Teamwork

"Collaboration is much like a birth. The painful process of delivery pales against the joy of seeing your baby take the first breath."

- Jim Tamm

Teamwork

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

- Phil Jackson

Teamwork

"My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts."

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

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

- African Proverb

Teamwork

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

- A.G. Lafley

Teamwork

"A group of people get together and exist as an institution we call a company so they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately – they make a contribution to society."

- David Packard

Teamwork

"The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization."

- James Cash Penney

Teamwork

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

- Peter Drucker

Teamwork

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

- Epictetus

Teamwork

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Teamwork

"Communication works for those who work at it."

- John Powell

Teamwork

"Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development."

- Peter Shepherd

Teamwork

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

- Rollo May

Teamwork

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

- Warren Bennis

Teamwork

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

- Booker T. Washington

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Relationships

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

- Simon Sinek

Teamwork

"There is no ‘I’ in team but there is in win."

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Teamwork

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

- Cicero

Teamwork

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

Teamwork

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

- Biz Stone

Teamwork

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

- Lance Armstrong

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts."

- Steve Jobs

Teamwork

"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

Change

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

- Casey Stengel

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Teamwork

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

Teamwork

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

- G.S. Patton

Teamwork

"I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success."

- Jack Welch

Learning from Mistakes

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

Contentment

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

- Matthew Woodring Stover

Teamwork

"Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships."

- Stephen R. Covey

Honesty

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

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

"We rise by lifting others"

- Robert Ingersoll

Teamwork

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

- Margaret Carty

Teamwork

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

Compassion

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

- James Cash Penney

Teamwork

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

- H.E. Luccock

Teamwork

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

- Stephen Covey

Teamwork

"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

Connection to Earth

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

- Simon Mainwaring

Teamwork

"Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well-motivated individual."

- Bill Gates

Teamwork

"I am a big believer in the power of a team. A good team can win a championship if they have the fundamentals and work together as one."

- Howard Schultz

Teamwork

"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth."

- Baha'U'Llah

Inspiration

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

- Bill Bethel

Teamwork

"No individual can win a game by himself."

- Pele

Teamwork

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

- Ben Franklin

Teamwork

"A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle."

- Japanese proverb

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Bill Bradley

Teamwork

"Success is best when it’s shared."

- Howard Schultz

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Russel Honore

Teamwork

"Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us."

- Tom Wilson

Teamwork

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

- Robert Orben

Teamwork

"When you work together, there’s a strength that no obstacle can match."

- Lao Tzu

Teamwork

"Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team."

- John C. Maxwell

Teamwork

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

- Walt Disney

Teamwork

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

- Simon Sinek

Leadership

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."

- Stephen R. Covey

Teamwork

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

- John C. Maxwell

Leadership

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

- Doug Conant

Teamwork

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

- Virginia Burden

Teamwork

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

Teamwork

"Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do."

- Robert Schuller

Teamwork

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

- Victoria Osteen

Teamwork

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

- Idowu Koyenikan

Teamwork

"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."

- Dale Carnegie

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

Motivation

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

- Mattie Stepanek

Teamwork

"We’ve found that people who collaborate well tend to work more efficiently and build better relationships."

- Bill Gates

Teamwork

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

- Lee Iacocca

Achievement

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Collaboration is truly the key to making a difference."

- Maya Angelou

Teamwork

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."

- Andrew Carnegie

Leadership

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Leadership

"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

"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

Teamwork

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Teamwork

"It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."

- Nelson Mandela

Leadership

"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings-and put compensation as a carrier behind it-you almost don’t have to manage them."

- Jack Welch

Leadership

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

- Lao Tzu

Leadership

"Take responsibility. Earn trust. Make the world a better place."

- Dalai Lama

Responsibility

"It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

Resilience

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

Hard Work

"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

Teamwork

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Responsibility

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

- Simon Sinek

Leadership

"The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength."

- James Cash Penney

Teamwork

"A group of people get together and exist as an institution we call a company so they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately."

- David Packard

Teamwork

"Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do."

- Max De Pree

Leadership

"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

Teamwork

"Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things."

- Jesse Jackson

Leadership

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

- Tahir Shah

Teamwork

"People achieve more as a result of working with others than against them."

- Dr. Allan Fromme

Teamwork

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

- John Wooden

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Teamwork

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

- Alison Pincus

Teamwork

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

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi

Connection to Earth

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

Hard Work

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

- Michael Schumacher

Teamwork

"When you need to innovate, you need collaboration"

- Marissa Mayer

Teamwork

"Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words."

- Josh Billings

Teamwork

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."

- Warren Bennis

Leadership

"Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem and 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it and crush it!"

- Tony Robbins

Motivation

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition

"Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others."

- Roy T. Bennett

Inspiration

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

Adversity

"The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them."

- Stephen King

Teamwork

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

- Rudyard Kipling

Teamwork

"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

Teamwork

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

- Max McKeown

Teamwork

"Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led."

- Warren Bennis

Leadership

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

- Tim Notke

Teamwork

"Bad attitudes will ruin your team."

- Terry Bradshaw

Teamwork

"Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors."

- Jocko Willink

Leadership

"Failure is acceptable, but not trying is a whole different ballpark."

- Michael Jordan

Motivation

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

- Thomas Edison

Resilience

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

Resilience

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

- Napoleon Hill

Hard Work

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

- Ethiopian Proverb

Teamwork

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

- Mike Schmoker

Teamwork

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

- Ted Sundquist

Success

"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

Leadership

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

- Mary Kay Ash

Teamwork

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

- Mike Schmoker

Teamwork

"Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others."

- Jon Gordon

Leadership

"Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember."

- GINNI ROMETTY

Growth

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

- Peter F. Drucker

New Beginnings

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

- Aristotle

Leadership

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Relationships

"If something’s important enough, you should try, even if the probable outcome is failure."

- Elon Musk

Motivation

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Hard Work

"Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary."

- Bruce Coslet

Teamwork

"Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine."

- David Ogilvy

Leadership

"When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time."

- Dr. Dre

Teamwork

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

- Jim Hightower

Courage

"Mindfulness is not about doing everything perfectly. It’s about being kind to ourselves, even in the midst of our mistakes."

- Brene Brown

Mindfulness

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Resilience

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

- Rosalynn Carter

Leadership

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

- Orrin Woodward

Teamwork

"In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love."

- Warren Buffett

Success

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

- Dalai Lama

Mindfulness

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

"We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in."

- Ariana Huffington

Hard Work

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

- Lao Tzu

Wisdom

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."

- Peter Drucker

Productivity

"Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine."

- Shunryu Suzuki

Mindfulness

"You do not rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems."

- James Clear

Personal Growth

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

- John Rockefeller

Teamwork

"Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else."

- Sara Blakely

Empowerment

"I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

Hard Work

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

- Malcolm Forbes

Hard Work

"Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have."

- Eckhart Tolle

Mindfulness

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

Perseverance

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

- Elon Musk

Ambition

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

Hard Work

"Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important."

- Stephen Covey

Time Management

"What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change."

- Madeleine Albright

Change

"It’s not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

- Henry David Thoreau

Focus

"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

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

- Toni Morrison

Self-awareness

"Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal."

- Ava DuVernay

Ambition

"Go for the steady, focused approach. It is the surest path to success."

- Wayne Dyer

Motivation

"Politeness is the poison of collaboration."

- Edwin Land

Teamwork

"You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

Belief

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

- Helena Rubinstein

Hard Work

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

Leadership

"Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need."

- Mike Krzyzewski

Leadership

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

- Anne Lamott

Self-care

"The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind."

- Joseph Stilwell

Insight

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

- Margaret Carty

Teamwork

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

- Simon Sinek

Teamwork

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

Teamwork

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

- Anonymous

Teamwork

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

- Anonymous

Teamwork

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

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

Teamwork

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

Leadership

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

Teamwork

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

Teamwork

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."

Hard Work

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."

Teamwork

"TEAM” Together Everyone Achieves More."

Teamwork

"It takes both sides to build a bridge."

Teamwork