Great teamwork can help us achieve things we never thought possible. Turning small dreams into bigger ones and then turning those dreams into reality.
No matter if that’s at work, in school or with your hobby or sport.
But building and keeping a strong team together – regardless of what role you may have in that team – isn’t always easy and we all need a boost of inspiration sometimes. And at other times timeless solutions from top leaders and teams that can help us too to overcome setbacks and challenges.
So in today’s post I’d like to share something to help you out with all of that.
Here’s 101 of the most powerful, positive and inspirational teamwork quotes to help you and your team to stay focused, motivated and overcome obstacles along the way while working smart and smoothly together as a team.
Inspirational Teamwork Quotes for Motivation
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
– Vince Lombardi
“Teamwork 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
“Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.”
– Becka Schoettle
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
– Harry Truman
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
– African Proverb
“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
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
– Phil Jackson
“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.”
– Steve Jobs
“When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.”
– Ethiopian Proverb
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
– Helen Keller
“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.”
– Jin Kwon
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
– Henry Ford
“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
“Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves.”
– Paul Solarz
Positive Teamwork Quotes on Building a Great Team
“A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind.”
– Bill Bethel
“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
“Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect.”
– Ron Garan
“Communication works for those who work at it.”
– John Powell
“A team is not a group of people who work together but a team is a group of people who trust each other.”
– Simon Sinek
“Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”
– Patrick Lencioni
“The best team of individuals doesn’t win nearly as much as a team that can truly communicate and respect each other.”
– Julie Brown
“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.”
– Norman Shidle
“The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.”
– Lewis B. Ergen
“Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.”
– Amit Ray
“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 is to work less as individuals and more as a team.”
– Knute Rockne
“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team.”
– Brian Tracy
“The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.”
– Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
“A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.”
– Barbara Glacel
“The speed of the team is the speed of the boss.”
– Lee Iacocca
“If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.”
– Darryl F. Zanuck
“If you can laugh together, you can work together.”
– Robert Orben
“The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.”
– Margaret Carty
Unique Teamwork Quotes from Top Athletes
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
– Michael Jordan
“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
“I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.”
– Abby Wambach
“What separates the good players from a great player is that a great player is willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.”
– Mike Krzyzewski
“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
“The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.”
– Mia Hamm
“When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes reality.”
– Joe Paterno
Inspirational Teamwork Quotes on Leadership Empowerment
“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”
– Seth Godin
“In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.”
– Mark Sanborn
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”
– Harvey S. Firestone
“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
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.”
– Peter Drucker
“The best team is not the team with the best players, but the team that plays best together.”
– Jamie Dimon
“It’s better to have a great team than a team of greats.”
– Simon Sinek
“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”
– Iyanla Vanzant
“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
“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-Exupery
“Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO.”
– Max McKeown
“To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.”
– Doug Conant
“Every once in a while, you hear an expert that says team chemistry is overrated. You just write that person off.”
– Tony La Russa
“Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.”
– Simon Sinek
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.”
– Ronald Reagan
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
– Lao Tzu
“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”
– Unknown
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”
– Arnold H. Glasow
“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
– Kenneth Blanchard
“Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals.”
– Unknown
Helpful Teamwork Quotes for Handling Setbacks and Challenges
“A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.”
– Japanese Proverb
“The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other.”
– Thomas Stallkamp
“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
“It is the long history of humankind that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
– Charles Darwin
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett
“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
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”
– Sun Tzu
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”
– Stephen R. Covey
“Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.”
– Simon Mainwaring
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead
“Decency is avoiding disrespect, not avoiding disagreement. Integrity is trying to get it right, not being right.”
– Adam Grant
“It takes two flints to make a fire.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“The best way to predict the future is to create it together.”
– Joe Echevarria
“Politeness is the poison of collaboration.”
– Edwin Land
“When a team trusts each other, success is a natural byproduct.”
– Unknown
Short, Positive and Inspirational Teamwork Quotes
“There is no such thing as a self-made man.”
– George Shinn
“Collaboration is the best way to work. It’s the only way to work, really.”
– Antony Starr
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
– Aristotle
“In unity there is strength.”
– Aesop
“We rise by lifting others.”
– Robert Ingersoll
“Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do.”
– Robert Schuller
“Teamwork makes the dream work.”
– John Maxwell
“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”
– Virginia Burden
“A single leaf working alone provides no shade.”
– Chuck Page
“You are either supporting the vision or supporting division.”
– Saji Ijiyemi
“Many hands make light work.”
– John Heywood
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
– Ryunosuke Satoro
“Success is best when it’s shared.”
– Howard Schultz
“The bigger the dream, the more important the team.”
– Robin Sharma
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
– Henry Ford
“Unity is strength.”
– Unknown
“Together is better.”
– Simon Sinek
“Trust is the glue of life.”
– Stephen Covey
“Teams share the burden and divide the grief.”
– Doug Smith
“None of us is as smart as all of us.”
– Ken Blanchard
Want more inspiration and motivation for your teamwork? Then check out the positive workplace quotes in this post, this one with hard work quotes and these additional teamwork quotes. Plus, this post with hilarious work quotes if you and your co-workers need a few laughs to release some pent up stress and inner pressure.