There’s no question that teamwork is important. That’s why there are tons of books, speeches, and quotes about teamwork. It’s great to have the support of your colleagues when you’re tackling a project. Knowing that there are other people who share your goal can help you to stay motivated and focused.
We’ve put together 135 of the best teamwork motivational quotes to inspire yourself and your team.
So, bookmark this page for the next time you’re on a team and need the right motivation. It might just be the key to success!
15 Funny Teamwork Quotes
“A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.” – Michael Winner
“If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” – Matthew Woodring Stover
“It’s called “teamwork” but most of the time it’s everyone sitting around until one man does all the work.” – Thomas Wilbur
“On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.” – Lou Holtz
“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothing can beat teamwork.” – Edward Abbey
“Teachers call it copying. We call it ‘teamwork’.” – A Student
“Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.” – Vince Lambordi
“Teamwork – A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.” – Larry Kersten
“Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.” – Pat Summitt
“Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you.” – Kris A. Hiatt
“Teamwork is essential – it allows you to blame someone else.” – Unknown
“Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.” – Stephen Hawking
“The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other.” – Thomas Stallkamp
“There is no ‘I’ in team but there is in PIE.” – Nick Saban
“You think it’s dumb when someone says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but you stick one in there and you see how dumb that looks.” – Brendan Kiely
20 Motivational Teamwork Quotes
“A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.” – Proverb
“A single leaf working alone provides no shade.” – Chuck Page
“A single twig is easily broken, but bundle twigs together and they become unbreakable.” – Unknown
“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
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
“Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.” – Amit Ray
“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
“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs
“I can’t. But we can.” – Unknown
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard
“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
“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” – Patrick Lencioni
“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 best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” – James Cash Penney
“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” – George Shinn
“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.” – Patrick Lencioni
15 Leadership Teamwork Quotes
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
“A team is a reflection of its leader.” – Unknown
“Before you reach the top of the ladder, make sure it’s leaning against the right wall.”
“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” – John Rockefeller
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry Truman
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” -Napolean Hill
“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
“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.” – Woodrow Wilson
“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” – Thomas Sowell
“Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.” – Tom J. Bouchard
“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.” – Lee Iacocca
“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
“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
15 Sports Teamwork Quotes
“Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders, and then you let them do their jobs.” – Pat Gillick
“Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team.” – Brian Tracy
“I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.” – Abby Wambach
“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 win championships.” – Michael Jordan
“Team guts always beats individual greatness.” – Robert Zuppke
“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.” – John Wooden
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson
“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
“The whole is other than the sum of the parts.” – Kurt Koffka
“There is no ‘I’ in team.” – Bill Shankly
“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” – Mike Krzyzewski
“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
“You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they’ve got one heartbeat. Then you’ve got yourself a team.” – Paul “Bear” Bryant
20 Team Success Quotes
“Success is best when it’s shared.” – Howard Schultz
“Coming Together is the beginning. Staying Together is the development and working together is the key to success.” – Henry Ford
“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns
“Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
“I have failed again and again throughout my life. That’s why I’ve been successful” – Michael Jordan
“I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” – Bill Gates
“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.” – Quentin Crisp
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford
“If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.” – Unknown
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napolean Hill
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” – Earl Wilson
“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” – Ken Blanchard
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” – Iyanla Vanzant
“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
“You are either supporting the vision or supporting division.” – Saji Ijiyemi
40 Positive Team Quotes
“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.” – Norman Shidle
“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
“A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind.” – Bill Russell
“A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.” – Barbara Glacel
“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” – Virginia Burden
“Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.” – Simon Mainwaring
“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If you can laugh together, you can work together.” – Robert Orben
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
“In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly.” – Mark Sanborn
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry Truman
“It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
“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
“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
“It takes two flints to make a fire.” – Louisa May Alcott
“Many hands make light work.” -John Heywood
“Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us.” – Tom Wilson
“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
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.” – John Donne
“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
“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
“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.” – Unknown
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H.E. Luccock
“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
“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
“Politeness is the poison of collaboration.” – Edwin Land
“Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.” – Mark Twain
“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
“Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” – Patrick Lencioni
“Teamwork is the key to success. It allows us to accomplish things we couldn’t do on our own.” – Unknown
“The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” – Margaret Carty
“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” – George Shinn
“Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do.” – Robert Schuller
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” – Benjamin Franklin
“When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.” ― Biz Stone
“When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.” – Marissa Mayer
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 ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team. – Lewis B. Ergen
10 Teamwork Quotes
“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
“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Men have never been individually self-sufficient.” – Reinhold Niebuhr
“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
“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” – Emily Kimbrough
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to know, and those who want to take credit. Give credit where credit is due.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.” – Ronald Reagan
