Inspiring Teamwork Quotes to Motivate Your Team

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

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

- African Proverb

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Kurt Koffka

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

- Virginia Burden

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

- H.E. Luccock

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"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

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

- Bill Bethel

"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

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

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

- Thomas Stallkamp

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

- Mike Schmoker

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

- Mike Krzyzewski

"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

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"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

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

- George MacDonald

"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

"A team is not a group of people working together. It is a group of people working entirely towards a shared goal."

- Patrick Lencioni

"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Henry Ford

"Unity is strength, division is weakness."

- Kwame Nkrumah

"The best teamwork comes from men who are working as a team because they respect the man next to them."

- Paul J. Meyer

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

- Arabella Weir

"Teams that succeed have healthy trust, mutual respect, and a shared sense of purpose."

- Maryanne Radmacher

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Sir Isaac Newton

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Henry Ford

"Politeness is the poison of collaboration."

- Edwin Land

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

- Simon Mainwaring

"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

"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

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

- George Shinn

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

- Norman Shidle

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

"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

"Success is best when it's shared."

- Howard Schultz

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Robert Schuller

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

"Communication works for those who work at it."

- John Powell

"Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication."

- Mike Krzyzewski

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

- Simon Sinek

"Ego is the ultimate killer on a team."

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Max McKeown

"There is no such thing as a ‘one-man show’ in a winning team."

- Jose B. Cabajar

"Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it."

- Midrash

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

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

- Mark Sanborn

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

- Joe Paterno

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

- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Biz Stone

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

- Sun Tzu

"Our destiny is not written for us, it’s written by us."

- Barack Obama

"Every once in a while you hear an expert that says team chemistry is overrated. You just write that person off."

- Tony La Russa

"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

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prison of the past or a pioneer of the future."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Adam Grant

"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

"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

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

- Saji Ijiyemi

"Not finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare."

- Patrick Lencioni

"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

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

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Abby Wambach

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Henry Ford

"Each person must live their life as a model for others."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Simon Sinek

"When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else."

- Iyanla Vanzant

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

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

- H.E. Luccock

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

"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

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Helen Keller

"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

"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

"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

"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."

- Archie Griffin

"Teamwork makes the dream work"

- Bang Gae

"T.E.A.M. = Together Everyone Achieves More!"

- HRH Prince Frederick v. Saxe-Lauenberg

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"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

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Henry Ford

"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

"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."

- Charles Darwin

"My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Stephen Covey

"Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas."

- Tony Dovale

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

- Aristotle

"No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything."

- B. Dodge

"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

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

- Booker T. Washington

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

"A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take."

- Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

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

- Casey Stengel

"Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice."

- Douglas B. Reeves

"People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them."

- Dr. Allan Fromme

"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 team work dynamites."

- Jin Kwon

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

- Joe Paterno

"Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you."

- Kris A Hiatt

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory."

- Paul "Bear" Bryant

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

- James Cash Penney

"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit."

- Robert Yates

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

- Tahir Shah

"As a leader, it's your job to get everyone to share what they know."

- Jane Ripley

"Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain."

- Jane Ripley

"Team spirit promotes greater accomplishment."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Ted Sundquist

"We now live in a time when PEOPLE and profits must become equally valuable in the corporate leaders Mindset. Rethink your Leadership Culture to become a conscious, high performance organisation."

- Tony Dovale

"You don't win with the best talent - you win with the five players who are able to play well together."

- Sportscaster

"Remember: upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

- Alexander the Great

"All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people."

- Alexis Carrel

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

- Althea Gibson

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Tim Cook

"There is no teamwork without trust. And there is no trust without vulnerability."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Andrew Carnegie

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Mark Zuckerberg

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"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

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

- Jon Gordon

"It all starts with a great idea and teamwork."

- Garrett Camp

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

- Robert Orben

"It’s better to have a million fans than a critic."

- Biz Stone

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

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

- Cari Tuna

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

- Isaac Newton

"The more we are able to engage in enthusiastic disagreement with each other, the more we will be able to uncover the best in ourselves and each other."

- Karen Kimsey-House

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

"It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

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

- Tahir Shah

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

- Ava DuVernay

"The greatest danger a team faces isn't that it won't become successful, but that it will, and then cease to improve."

- Mark Sanborn

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

- Terry Orlick

"I hope someday you will join us/ And the world will live as one."

- John Lennon

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

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi

"You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough."

- Robert Crandall

"It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."

- John Cleese

"Teams share the burden and divide the grief."

- Doug Smith

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Mark Sanborn

"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain

"Light is the task where many share the toil."

- Homer

"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork."

- Edward Abbey

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

- James Cash Penney

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."

- Doug Floyd

"The main reason why great leaders are rare is because books on leadership far outsell those on followership."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"There is no team without the individual members; an individual can never be a team."

- Michael Joling

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

- Toni Morrison

"You’re either remarkable or invisible. Make a choice."

- Seth Godin

"Prejudicial attitude toward each other in a team is an obstacle in the way to unity."

- Sunday Adelaja

"Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team."

- Buchholz and Roth

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

- Japanese Proverb

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

- Mark Cuban

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success."

- Robert Orben

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Never confuse movement with action."

- Ernest Hemingway

"The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"You don’t overcome challenges by avoiding them. You overcome them by confronting them."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"Failure is a necessary part of growth. It’s a stepping stone to success. You can’t avoid it, but you can learn from it."

- Sara Blakely

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

- Peter Drucker

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Success is often achieved by those who don’t know it is impossible."

- Maya Angelou

"The most important thing is to try your best. Even if you fail, if you try everything, you will have no regrets."

- Kobe Bryant

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

- Steve Jobs

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

"Teamwork doesn't tolerate the inconvenience of distance."

"We are most effective as a team when we compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear."

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

- Anonymous

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

- Anonymous

"The basic building block of good teambuilding is for a leader to promote the feeling that every human being is unique and adds value."

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."

"Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder... [T]eamwork can be summed up in five short words: 'We believe in each other.'"

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

"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."

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

"Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we."

"A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!"

"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link."