Inspiring Quotes on Working Together: A Collection of Wisdom

"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

"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

"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

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

- NAPOLEON HILL

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

- Matthew Woodring Stover

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

"[Teamwork] 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

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Martin Luther King Jr

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

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Mattie Stepanek

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Helen Keller

"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 is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

"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

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

- Mattie Stepanek

"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

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"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

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

- Harry S Truman

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

- African Proverb

"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

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

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

- Simon Mainwaring

"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

"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

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

- Sun Tzu

"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

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

- Adam Grant

"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

"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

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

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Iyanla Vanzant

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

- Phil Jackson

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

- H.E. Luccock

"None of us can achieve our full potential alone, and we will all ultimately go further with the help of others."

- Margaret Mead

"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

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

- Kurt Koffka

"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

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Biz Stone

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"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

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

- Simon Mainwaring

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Ted Sundquist

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

- Simon Sinek

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

- Norman Shidle

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?""

- Brian Tracy

"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

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

- Tim Notke

"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

"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

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

- Ginni Rometty

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

- Helena Rubinstein

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Malcolm Forbes

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

- Vince Lombardi Jr.

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

- Elon Musk

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Mark Sanborn

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"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

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

- Abby Wambach

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Isaac Newton

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Jon Gordon

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

- Mary Kay Ash

"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

"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."

- Golda Meir

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

- George Shinn

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Saji Ijiyemi

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"People doing good work feel good and people doing exceptional work feel exceptional. Accomplishments contribute greatly to satisfaction."

- Mark Sanborn

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

- Mark Zuckerberg

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."

- Brian Tracy

"You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again."

- Pat Riley

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

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

- Ava DuVernay

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"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

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

- Jack Canfield

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

- Barbara Corcoran

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

- Chris Bradford

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

- Margaret Carty

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- A.G. Lafley

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

- Jamie Dimon

"The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Thomas Stallkamp

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

- James Cash Penney

"The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is."

- Gerhard Gschwandtner

"The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the worldwide scientific community."

- Kenneth G Wilson

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

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

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Satya Nadella

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- Richard Yates

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Norman Shidle

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Larry Page

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

- Anonymous

"Working with others is, in my mind, the future of business. You have a larger audience, more ideas, shared risk, shared workload and you will be getting a portion of something greater than had you done it alone."

- Seth Nichol

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"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

"Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration."

- Simon Mainwaring

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

- Charles F. Kettering

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

- Tahir Shah

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

- Terry Orlick

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

- Garrett Camp

"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."

- Jessica Savitch

"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde

"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

- Arianna Huffington

"Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision."

- Jim Stovall

"An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down."

- Reid Hoffman

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

- Dustin Moskovitz

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

- Lewis B. Ergen

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- John Wooden

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Farshad Asl

"Be clear. Be authentic. Have boundaries. Check your vision. Do what matters to you. And know what you value."

- Iyanla Vanzant

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

- Booker T. Washington

"You don't have to be great at something to start, but you have to start to be great at something."

- Zig Ziglar

"Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term."

- Reed Hastings

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

- Mark Cuban

"It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail."

- Caterina Fake

"Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world."

- Melinda Gates

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

- Max McKeown

"The only way round is through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Babe Ruth

"Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals."

- Amy Morin

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

- Brené Brown

"I want little girls to grow up knowing they can do anything, even play football."

- Jen Welter

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

- Theo Gold

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

- Tony Robbins

"Communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity."

- Nat Turner

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Josh Billings

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

- Stephen King

"Great communication begins with connection."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- Jill Konrath

"Anything is possible if you wish hard enough."

- J.M. Barrie

"The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%."

- Rob Kalin

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

- Michael Dell

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

- Gena Showalter

"Communication works for those who work at it."

- John Powell

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

- Anonymous

"Politeness is the poison of collaboration."

- Edwin Land

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

- Lynda Barry

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- James Humes

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Epictetus

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

- Peter Shepherd

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

- Rollo May

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

- Lee Iacocca

"If you can dance and be free and not embarrassed you can rule the world."

- Amy Poehler

"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."

- Whoopi Goldberg

"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished."

- Leslie Nielsen

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."

- Josh Billings

"Change is not a four letter word… but often your reaction to it is!"

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"To err is human—and to blame it on a computer is even more so."

- Robert Orben

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

- Mother Teresa

"Some people see innovation as change, but we have never really seen it like that. It’s making things better."

- Tim Cook

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

- Margaret Carty

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."

- Ray Goforth

"It will never be done. It’s a continuous exercise."

- Dara Khosrowshahi

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

- Janet Fitch

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

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

- Sir Isaac Newton

"When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you."

- Michelle Obama

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

- Gail Sheehy

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head: not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but: how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?"

- Florence Nightingale

"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning."

- Pele

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

- Rosa Parks

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change."

- Charles Darwin

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

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

- Robert Orben

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

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."