Many of us first heard about teamwork while in school. Teachers would divide the class into small groups and ask students to work together on a project or a task.
The idea might have seemed difficult to accept for some. After all, up to that point, most of us were used to focusing on our own success. But if teamwork happens the way it’s intended, it can lead to amazing things. When everyone is equally dedicated and involved in doing their part on a team, work is easier for everyone. When every member of the team is goal-oriented, you’ll work more efficiently, come up with better ideas and avoid mistakes.
And let’s not forget that teamwork brings new friends. How wonderful does it feel to celebrate a success with your team? Here are 135 teamwork quotes to inspire, and show you how collaboration can be the key to success.
Motivational Teamwork Quotes
When people come together in a collaborative effort to achieve a shared goal, the dynamic can inspire greater creativity and productivity. That typically leads to better results. But the truth is, it’s difficult to remain motivated and focused. There can be a number of reasons behind that lack of motivation.
If you have been feeling unproductive, it can be helpful to practice self-compassion and become curious about why. If you’ve noticed your team becoming unenthusiastic, you could probably use some inspiration and guidance. That’s why we’ve gathered these quotes -- to help you and your team stay motivated to keep working toward your goals.
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
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
There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.
― Idowu Koyenikan
A core group of guys, all sharing similar goals, can move mountains.
― Chris Matakas
Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
— Mattie Stepanek
None of us is as smart as all of us.
- Ken Blanchard
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.
- Mike Schmoker
It takes two flints to make a fire.
- Louisa May Alcott
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
- Mike Kryzewski
Efficiency is doing better than what is already being done.
- Peter Drucker
The value of achievement lies in the achievement.
- Albert Einstein
You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.
- Seth Godin
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
- Tim Ferriss
Bad attitudes will ruin your team.
- Terry Bradshaw
Individual commitment to a group effort: That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi
If you can laugh together, you can work together.
-Robert Orben
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
-Lee Laccoca
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
-Pat Riley
No individual can win a game by himself.
-Pele
A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.
-Barbara Glacel
Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ’em to play together is the hard part.
-Casey Stengel
If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?
– Matthew Woodring Stover
Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
– Justin Sewel
Inspirational Teamwork Quotes
No matter how big or small your team is, building and nurturing a strong culture of teamwork can have a sizable impact on results. Creating and maintaining a shared mindset among a diverse group of people can unleash creativity, encourage innovation and build the foundation for strong relationships. That kind of environment paves the way for more efficient and effective collaboration.
If each member feels valued for who they are and for what they contribute, the entire team may have a better chance of achieving greater outcomes than if each person worked independently. If you’re looking to provide motivation, these teamwork quotes to inspire collaboration serve as a powerful reminder of the impact it can have on success.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
– H.E. Luccock
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
With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input.
― Ogwo David Emenike
We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
— Victoria Osteen
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
— James Cash Penney
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
- Napoleon Hill
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- Booker T. Washington
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
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
The ratio of we’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.
- Lewis B. Ergen
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton
Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.
- Steve Jobs
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
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
Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
- Edwin Land
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
- Virginia Burden
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
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry Truman
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
- Joe Paterno
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
- John Wooden
Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you.
– Kris A. Hiatt
Teamwork makes the dream work.
– John C. Maxwell
Teamwork Quotes for Celebrating Your Workplace
Taking the time to let your team members know how much you appreciate their hard work can go a long way. However, sometimes we forget to make the time. Celebrating your team’s success has the tendency to breed more success. That's why it’s crucial to recognize that none of it would be possible without each member’s unique contributions.
Just like we honor major milestones, it’s equally important to acknowledge small accomplishments in the workplace, to keep members engaged and satisfied. If you’re looking to maintain an upbeat momentum at work, celebrate your crew and their efforts with these powerful teamwork quotes.
The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
- Margaret Carty
You are either supporting the vision or supporting division.
- Saji Ijiyemi
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
- Kenyan proverb
To build a strong team you must see someone else's strength as a complement to your weakness not a threat to your position or authority.
- Christine Caine
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.
- Joseph Stilwell
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
Many hands make light work.
- John Heywood
In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.
- Mark Sanborn
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
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
The secret to teamwork is an outward mindset.
― Steve Young
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
– Phil Jackson
Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.
― Chris Bradford
Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
― Patrick Lencion
Be fast, be first, but never be alone. Nothing can replace the value of teamwork.
― Farshad Asl
Interdependent people combine their own effort with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
- Stephen Covey
Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.
- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
- Biz Stone
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
- Elbert Hubbard
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
In union there is strength.
-Aesop
When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.
- TIbetan proverb
It’s better to have a great team than a team of greats.
– Simon Sinek
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
Positive Teamwork Quotes
Building and sustaining positive momentum within your team can lead to stronger collaboration and improved performance. Team members who feel happy and engaged are more likely to be driven to succeed and reach their goals. However, keeping the momentum going when things don’t go as planned is sometimes easier said than done.
Staying optimistic during uncertain times can be trick. But knowing you can rely upon your team for support can help you navigate challenges as they arise. If you need a little pick-me-up, these positive teamwork quotes might help you to gain perspective.
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
- Maya Angelou
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
- Benjamin Franklin
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
- Jack Welch
Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
- Audrey Hepburn
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
- Colin Powell
I can do things you cannot. You can do things I cannot. Together we can do great things.
- MOTHER TERESA
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
- KOBE BRYANT
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A strong team can make any vision turn into a reality.
- John Carmack
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
- Paulo Coelho
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
- Ralph Marston
The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost
Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
- Babe Ruth
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
- Willie Nelson
Don’t count the days, make the days count.
- Muhammad Ali
The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.
- Malcolm Forbes
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston S. Churchill
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
- Michael Jordan
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
- Amelia Earhart
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
- Napolean Hill
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
- Henry J. Kaiser
Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
- Babe Ruth
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
- John Maxwell
Funny Teamwork Quotes
Regardless of the task at hand or how well your team works together, things can get a little tense and stressful sometimes. Work life comes with ups and downs and navigating them becomes easier when we allow ourselves to be our authentic selves and loosen up a little. Life and work can be a lot more fun if we stop taking ourselves too seriously.
You probably know how the saying goes: laughter is the best medicine. Well, as it turns out not only does a good laugh have the power of relieving stress, it also has the potential of creating stronger bonds with your teammates. If you need to lighten up the mood, these funny teamwork quotes will put a smile on your face and help you get through the day.
If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?
- Matthew Woodring Stover
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?
- Kin Hubbard
The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
- Jerome K. Jerome
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
- Earl Nightingale
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called everybody, and they meet at the bar.
- Drew Carey
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there.
- Josh Billings
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
- Charles Lamb
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
- Thomas Edison
I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.
- Will Rogers
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
- Michael Winner
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
- Bill Gates
No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early.
- Groucho Marx
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Do or do not. There is no try.
- Yoda
Hard work never killed anybody but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’
- Dave Barry
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight Eisenhower
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
- Robert Frost
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
- George Carlin
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. - Roger Staubach
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
- Will Rogers
On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
- Lou Holtz
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change is not a four letter word… but often your reaction to it is!
- Jeffrey Gitomer
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
- Robert Frost
