50 Inspiring Quotes on Teamwork That Will Motivate Your Team

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

- Stephen Covey

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Michael Jordan

"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 makes the dream work.""

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

- Phil Jackson

"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 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

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Biz Stone

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

- Joe Echevarria

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

- Margaret Mead

"Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Bill Bethel

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Norman Shidle

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

- Pat Riley

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- James Cash Penney

"I truly believe when we stand together we stand a chance."

- Korie Robertson

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

- Henry Ford

"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. 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

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

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

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

- Abby Wambach

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- African Proverb

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Michael Jordan

""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

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"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

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

- Simon Sinek

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

"Scrum embraces uncertainty and creativity. It places a structure around the learning process, enabling teams to assess both what they’ve created and, just as important, how they created it. The Scrum framework harnesses how teams actually work and gives them the tools to self-organize and rapidly improve both speed and quality of work."

- Jeff Sutherland

"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

"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

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

- Russel Honore

"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

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"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

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

- Dr. Allan Fromme

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

- John Wooden

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

- Tom Wilson

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Bill Bethel

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

- Kurt Koffka

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

- Bill Gates

"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

"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

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

- A.G. Lafley

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Jamie Dimon

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

- G.S. Patton

""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

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Harry Truman

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

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

- H.E. Luccock

""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

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

- Pat Riley

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

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

- Virginia Burden

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Mattie Stepanek

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Mark Sanborn

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

- Matthew Woodring Stover

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

- Garth Stein

"A team has to demand greatness from itself."

- Jeff Sutherland

"'Take it to the team.' Take any perceived problem to the team. They know what’s really happening and what to do about it. Everyone can rely on the cadence agile gives them to consider such problems. It’s called the retrospective."

- Lyssa Adkins

"A ScrumMaster who takes teams beyond getting agile practices up and running into their deliberate and joyful pursuit of high performance is an agile coach."

- Lyssa Adkins

"A project manager and an agile coach are not even as much alike as a house cat and a jaguar. They are simply not in the same family. A project manager plans and controls, supervising throughout. A coach guides. A project manager’s success equals the success of the project. An agile coach’s success equals the team’s continual improvement and their pursuit of high performance. The two are focused on completely different things and thus act completely differently."

- Lyssa Adkins

"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

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

- African Proverb

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Mike Krzyzewski

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

- H.E. Luccock

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

- Thomas Stallkamp

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

- Virginia Burden

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

- George Shinn

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Jon Gordon

"No team works out teamwork."

- Dwyane Wade

"No individual can win a game by himself."

- Pele

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

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

- Ted Sundquist

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Norman Shidle

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

- Bill Bradley

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Success is best when it’s shared."

- Howard Schultz

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

- Casey Stengel

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

- Abby Wambach

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

- Sir Isaac Newton

"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

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable."

- Kenyan Proverb

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

- Isaac Newton

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

- Saji Ijiyemi

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Simon Mainwaring

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, ‘Your end of the boat is sinking.'"

- Hugh Downs

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

- Winston Churchill

"Agile leaders lead teams, non-agile ones manage tasks."

- Jim Highsmith

"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

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

- Ted Sundquist

""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

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

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

- Robert Orben

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

- Mark Sanborn

"Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives."

- Tom J. Bouchard

"The magic of teams is a double-edged sword once organizations get big: some of the same traits that make an adaptable team great can make it incompatible with the structure it serves."

- Stanley McChrystal

"For a team to experience more of its potential, the interference must be reduced. Interference in a team might include the following: Lack of trust in other team members; Fear of ridicule; Fear of being dominated; Pursuit of personal agendas; Need to lead; Lack of clarity about the task or the goals; Pursuit of incongruent goals; Hidden agendas; Not understanding (or distrusting) each other’s intentions; No agreed process for working together; An absence of agreed ground rules; Rivalries; No listening; No meaningful collective work; Beliefs and positions (‘this is how things are or should be’)."

- Myles Downey

""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

"We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you."

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Doug Conant

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

"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

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

- Chuck Page

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

- Victoria Osteen

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

- Lee Iacocca

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

- Tibetan Proverb

"Bad attitudes will ruin your team."

- Terry Bradshaw

"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

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

- Tahir Shah

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

- Jesse Jackson

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

- Ethiopian Proverb

"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

"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

"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

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

- Baha'U'Llah

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

- Max de Pree

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

- Alison Pincus

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Michael Schumacher

"When you need to innovate, you need collaboration"

- Marissa Mayer

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

- Mike Schmoker

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

- Max McKeown

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

- Margaret Carty

"Ask your colleagues for help—early and often."

- Jill Konrath

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

- Brené Brown

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

- Simon Mainwaring

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"Politeness is the poison of collaboration."

- Edwin Land

"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

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

- Amit Ray

"Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect."

- Mori Taheripour

"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

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

- Mike Schmoker

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

- Jim Stovall

"We multiplies the power of I."

- Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

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

- Warren Bennis

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

- Satya Nadella

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

- Ben Franklin

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

- Bruce Coslet

"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

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

- Margaret Carty

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Orrin Woodward

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

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

- Peter F. Drucker

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

- Helena Rubinstein

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

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Ralph Nader

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

- Joseph Stilwell

"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

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

- Aristotle

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

- Mike Krzyzewski

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

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

- John Rockefeller

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

- Proverb

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

"Teamwork is how everyday people achieve remarkable goals."

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

""Don’t take your culture for granted. There needs to be a constant renewal of values that lead to camaraderie.""

- Unknown

"It takes both sides to build a bridge."

"TEAM” Together Everyone Achieves More."

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

""Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.""

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."