Looking for inspirational quotes on teamwork? We have rounded up the best collection of teamwork quotes, sayings, captions, slogans, messages, proverbs, phrases, (with images, pictures, wallpaper, posters) to inspire collaboration and working in synergy to achieve your goals and be successful.
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These famous team quotes are great to encourage group working amongst students, employees in workplace, sportsmen, athletes, teachers, healthcare workers, and more to accomplish great results in an organization with concentrated efforts of the team.
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Inspirational Teamwork Quotes
- “Together everyone achieves more.”
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“In union there is strength.” – Aesop
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“Teamwork makes the dream work.” – Bang Gae
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“Success is best when it’s shared.” – Howard Schultz
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“Lets root for each other and watch each other grow.”
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“None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard
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“We are more powerful when we empower each other.”
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“It takes two flints to make a fire.” – Louisa May Alcott
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“Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.”
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“Build a team so strong you don’t know who the boss is.”
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“Politeness is the poison of collaboration.” – Edwin Land
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“In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.” – Mark Sanborn
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“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
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“Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long term success.” – Ned Lautenbach
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“Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds.” – Seal Team Saying
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“Surround yourself with a trusted and loyal team. It makes all the difference.”
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“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro
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“As a team, encouraging each other is the most essential part to reach it’s goals.”
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“Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.” – Midrash
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“The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.” – John C. Maxwell
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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
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“The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. Don’t forget you’re on the same team.”
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“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H.E. Luccock
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“So encourage each other and build each other up.” – Thessalonians 5:11 (Bible Verses)
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“Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.” – John Katzenbach
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“I think team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.” – Lebron James
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“Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” – Malcolm Forbes
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“I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.” – Abby Wambach
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“The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” – Margaret Carty
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“When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.” – Tibetan Proverb
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“Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.” – Pat Riley
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“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” – James Cash Penney
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“Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.” – Ifeanyi Onuoha
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“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.” – Mike Schmoker
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“Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.” – Chris Bradford
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“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan, Basketball Player
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“Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.” – Justin Sewell
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“Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you.” – Kris A. Hiatt
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“Relationship flourishes when a couple work together as a team. It don’t just happen… it’s a product of hard work.”
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“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” – George Shinn
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“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” – Virginia Burden
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“Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.” – Marvin Weisbord
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“We’re all pieces of the big puzzle. Just be the piece you are so you’re doing your part to complete the picture.” – Kathryn
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“Teamwork is not “What I can get out of this relationship?”, it’s “What can I bring to this relationship to make it better?””
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“I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” – Jean-Francois Cope
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“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
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“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
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“Teamwork is vital, one cannot make harmony alone. It takes the help of others to make beautiful music.” – Kaithlyn Sleyster
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“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” – Emily Kimbrough, American Author
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“Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.” – Pat Summitt
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“Teamwork means that you are willing to compromise when it is best for the team to advance to reach their goals.” – Byron Pulsifer
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“The healthiest relationships are those where you’re a team; where you protect each other and stand up for one another.” – Sharon Rivkin
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“Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.” – Nicholas Sparks
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“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.” – Idowu Koyenikan
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“Successful people build each other up. They motivate, inspire, and push each other. Unsuccessful people just hate, blame, and complain.”
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“The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.” – Kobe Bryant
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“Thank you so much for working like your life was at bet! I couldn’t have asked for better teammates! You guys made the work feel a lot easier.”
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“Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” – Patrick Lencioni
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“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
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“Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.”
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“You don’t inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing that how amazing they are.” – Robyn Benincase
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“Two people in a room can get more done than a hundred; unless you need to move a piano” – T’Chaka, Fictional Character In Black Panther Movie
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“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
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“Teamwork requires that everyone’s efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team’s energy takes on a life of its own.” – Pat Riley
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“I am extremely proud of my team. Everybody could see that there is teamwork on and off the court. We hit together, fight together, have dinner together. I couldn’t wish for a better spirit.”
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“Nobody’s going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.” – Jamais Cascio
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“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
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“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
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“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
Motivational Teamwork Quotes
Great things are rarely achieved by just one person. Usually, they are accomplished by a group of people in games, office, school, or any other workplace.
When everyone in a team is committed to the overall goal, teams move faster, are more innovative and more successful. Successful teamwork is essential for anyone reaching out to be successful. These motivational teamwork quotes, captions and slogans will drive your team with greater energy at your workplace.
- “We rise by lifting others.” – Robert Ingersol
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“Safety requires teamwork. Be part of our team!”
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“It takes both sides to build a bridge.” – Fredrik Nael
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“Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss
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“The whole is other than the sum of the parts.” – Kurt Koffka
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“A single leaf working alone provides no shade.” – Chuck Page
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“Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
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“The value of achievement lies in the achieving.” – Albert Einstein
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“If you can laugh together, you can work together.” – Robert Orben
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“What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.” – Ted Kennedy
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“Efficiency is doing better that what is already being done.” – Peter Drucker
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“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
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“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” – Ted Turner
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“The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.” – Joseph Stilwell
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“Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.” – Becka Schoettle
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“You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.” – Seth Godin
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“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
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“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there” – Will Rogers
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“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry Truman
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“Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.” – Mark Twain
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“A sustainable world means working together to create prosperity for all.” – Jacqueline Novogratz
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“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
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“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napolean Hill
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“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” – Iyanla Vanzant
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“As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.” – Jim George
- “Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” – Mattie Stepanek
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“No problem is insurmountable, With a little courage, teamwork and determination a can overcome anything.” – B Dodge
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“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” – Mike Krzyzewski
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“In school success is not a matter of luck. It’s a matter of collective teamwork of the teachers, parents, students and the staff.”
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“Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.” – Ginni Rometty
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“Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.” – Simon Mainwaring
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“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
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“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids to work together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.” – Bill Gates
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“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
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“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
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“No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” – Warren Buffett
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“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
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“Teamwork is the result of groups that have worked together to effectively and efficiently achieving organizational tasks and vision and mission.” – Dr. Hiriyappa B
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“In this office we do teamwork. We think positive. We listen and communicate. We do caffeine. We respect each other. We show kindness. We do friendship. We have fun. We do motivation. We are a team.”
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“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
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“The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.” – Barack Obama
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“Hard work and togetherness, They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it’s such a tough atmosphere… to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don’t always win, and you gotta hand through together.” – Tony Dungy
Teamwork Quotes for Work
- “Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.”
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“Team effort is how everyday people achieve remarkable goals.”
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“Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job.” – Winston Churchill
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“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.” – John Wooden
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“Teamwork is the engine for a high performance work culture.” – Rick Conlow
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“To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.” – Doug Conant
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“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.” – Vince Lombardi Jr.
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“True teams are made when you put aside individual wants for collective good.” – Chiney Ogwumike
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“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs
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“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” – James Cash Penney
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“In business, nothing great can be done by one person alone (typically) but, with a team, great things can happen.” – Steven Dunlop
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“Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” – Vince Lombardi
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“Innovation at Apple has always been a team game. It has always been a case where you have a number of small groups working together.” – Jonathan Ive
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“Without teamwork, there is no way that the company is going to experience success. In teams, individuals will work together and accomplish a lot more that what they do by themselves.” – Michael Welton
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“Teamwork is really a form of trust. It’s what happens when you surrender the mistaken idea that you can go it alone and realize that you won’t achieve your individual goals without the support of your colleagues.” – Pat Summit
Positive Team Quotes
- “Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do.”
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“Bad attitudes will ruin your team.” – Terry Bradshaw
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”New year, new feels, new chances, same dreams, fresh starts.”
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“A hockey team is like a puzzle. Every piece is vital.” – Bob Hartley
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“It’s better to have a great team than a team of greats.” – Simon Sinek
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“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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“A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind.” – Bill Bethel
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“Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.” – Helena Rubinstein
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“The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” – Lewis B. Ergen
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“We are not a team because we work together. We are a team because we respect, trust and care for each other.”
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“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson, Coach
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“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
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“Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.” – Tom J. Bouchard
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“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.” – Norman Shidle
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“The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.” – John Bardeen
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“A workplace filled with and driven by employees with positive attitudes – vibrate continually to the tune of service excellence and passionate team success.” – Ty Howard
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“When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when you team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.” – Bo Schembechler
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“We are respectful. We have fun. We love what we do. We work hard and smart. We do great things. We communicate and listen. We are helpful. We stay positive. We strive for excellence. We are a team.”
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“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, Baseball Player
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“The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.” – Rensis Likert
Team Player Quotes
- “In our togetherness (as a team), castles are built.” – Irish Proverb
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“Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO.” – Max McKeown
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“Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.” – Casey Stengel
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“Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.” – Stephen Covey
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“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.” – Patrick Lencioni
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“On a team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but is the strength of the unit and how they all function.” – Bill Belichick
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“When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.” – Joe Paterno, Football Player
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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, Athlete
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“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
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“Team player is the one who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others, and developing trust.” – Dennis Kinlaw
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“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, Soccer Player
Funny Teamwork Quotes
- “Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say.”
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“Teamwork! Working together gets the goods!”
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“There is no I in Team unless you disable auto-correct.”
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“I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horns louder.”
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“Teamwork is essential – it allows you to blame someone else.”
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“The chain is only as strong as the weakest link.” – Thomas Reid
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“Team work means that there’s always someone else to do the heavy lifting.”
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“I can do it when it’s not hard but when it’s hard I need teamwork as strong as a board.”
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“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” – Matthew Woodring Stover
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“Teamwork: Working towards a common goal… until a ‘difference of opinion’ gets someone dropped into molten lava.”
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“When two or more of you work as a team, to do what any one of you could do alone, that’s not teamwork, that’s pooching it.”
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“A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken.” – Bonnie Edelstein
Teamwork Leadership Quotes
- “True leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.”
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“Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.”
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“A leader must inspire or his team will expire” – Orrin Woodward
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“When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.” – Biz Stone
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“You are either supporting the vision or supporting division.” – Saji Ijiyemi
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“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
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“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” – John Rockefeller
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“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch
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“Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.” – Alan Mulally
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“Lead by example, insist on teamwork and instill motivation. Self-discipline is what gets you to work every day, and hard work builds character.” – Dave Mueller
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“Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams.” – Israelmore Ayivor
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“One of the most important actions, things a leader can do, is to lead by example. If you want everyone else to be passionate, committed, dedicated, and motivated, you go first!” – Marshall Goldsmith
Henry Ford Teamwork Quotes
- “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
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“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford
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“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford
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“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
Encouraging Quotes For Team Building
- “Many hands make light work.” – John Heywood
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“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” – Kenyan Proverb
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“The path to greatness is along with others.” – Baltasar Gracion
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“Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us.” – Tom Wilson
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“Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable” – Chris Bradford
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“I can do things you cannot. You can do things I cannot. Together we can do great things.” – Mother Teresa
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“A team is not a group of people who work together but it a team is a group of people who trust each other.” – Simon Sinek
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“When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.” – Russel Honore
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“The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.” – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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“If we can do so much work by ourselves, then imagine how much more we can work as a team? Always think big, so you get bigger result.”
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“Teams are incredible things. No task is too great, no accomplishment too grand, no dream too far-fetched for a team. It takes teamwork to make the dream work.” – John Maxwell
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“Team spirit is knowing and living the belief that what a group of people can accomplish together is much larger, far greater, and will exceed that which an individual can accomplish alone.” – Diane Arias
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