The evolution of mankind has always depended on joining hands with each other. From ancient pyramids to space crafts everything is possible only because of teamwork. This process goes on in parallel with time. However, at certain points, everyone working together needs a boost to keep them on track both physically and mentally. And to address it, various famous leaders from different fields have delivered some powerful teamwork quotes to boost morale and keep teams united.
But before beginning with our list of quotes on teamwork, let’s quickly understand a few things.
What is a Team?
A team is a group of people bearing the same ideologies that fuel their ability to work together for achieving common goals. It has two important aspects associated with it i.e.
The process of bringing in like-minded individuals who are contributing individually for a common vision.
It is the ability of every individual to understand each other in a group and efficiently allocating tasks amongst all for scaling the efficiency.
Learn more: The difference between teamwork and team building?
In my view, a team is just like a tree that we need to keep nourishing from time to time to make it stronger and harness the fruitful outcomes.
Therefore, it is important that you encourage and build a culture where employees trust and respect each other.
Here are 50 teamwork quotes to inspire teamwork, celebrate hard work, and strengthen the unity among your team members.
50 Best Teamwork Quotes To Inspire Your Workforce
1. Abraham Lincoln
"I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better." - Abraham Lincoln
2. Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results." - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
3. Andrew Carnegie
"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
4. Michael Jordan
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." - Michael Jordan
5. Patrick Lencioni
"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability." - Patrick Lencioni
6. Matthew Woodring Stover
"If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?" - Mathew Woodring Strover
7. Isaac Newton
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of the giants." - Isaac Newton
8. Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
9. Henry Ford
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." - Henry Ford
10. Ryunosuke Satoro
"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." - Ryunosuke Satoro
11. Patrick Lencioni
"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
12. Tibetan Proverb
"When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself." - Tibetan Proverb
13. Mother Teresa
"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot: together we can do great things." - Mother Teresa
14. Virginia Burden
"Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there." - Virginia Burden
15. Marissa Mayer
"When you need to innovate, you need collaboration." - Marissa Mayer
16. Babe Ruth
"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
17. Tobio Kageyama
"You don’t win alone. That’s just how it is." - Tobio Kageyama
18. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
19. Amy Poehler
"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
20. Alison Pincus
"Surround yourself with a trusted and loyal team. It makes all the difference." - Alison Pincus
21. Margaret Carty
"The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side." - Margaret Carty
22. Robert Schuller
"Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do." - Robert Schuller
23. Vince Lombardi
"Individual commitment to a group effort- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." - Vince Lombardi
24. Simon Mainwaring
"Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus." - Simon Mainwaring
25. Christine Caine
"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
26. Abby Wambach
"I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else." - Abby Wambach
27. Ken Blanchard
"None of us is as smart as all of us." - Ken Blanchard
28. Phil Jackson
"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." - Phil Jackson
29. Booker T. Washington
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington
30. Simon Sinek
"A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is people who trust each other." - Simon Sinek
31. Harry Truman
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry Truman
32. 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
33. H.E. Luccock
"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it." - H.E. Luccock
34. Lewis B. Ergen
"The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team." - Lewis B. Ergen
35. Louisa May Alcott
"It takes two flints to make a fire." - Louisa May Alcott
36. George Shinn
"There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others." - George Shinn
37. Thomas Stallkamp
"The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other." - Thomas Stallkamp
38. Moira Alexander
"Strong and cohesive teams thrive when leaders highlight how much they all have in common, not how much he or she stands above from the crowd." - Moira Alexander
39. Amit Ray
"Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth." - Amit Ray
40. Brian Tracy
"Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team." - Brian Tracy
41. Althea Gibson
"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you." - Althea Gibson
42. Scharf
"When ‘I’ is replaced by “we” even ‘illness’ becomes ‘wellness’." - Scharf
43. Joe Paterno
"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality." - Joe Paterno
44. James Cash Penny
"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison." - James Cash Penny
45. Norman Shidle
"A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others." - Norman Shidle
46. Max McKeown
"Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO." - Max McKeown
47. Fredrik Nael
"It takes both sides to build a bridge." - Fredrik Nael
48. Robin Sharma
"The bigger the dream, the more important to the team." - Robin Sharma
49. Helen Keller
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller
50. Margaret Mead
"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
These were some of the teamwork quotes said by great personalities from different fields. Now, it’s your turn to communicate it with your teams. And for this you can either include these quotes to start off the day on group chats or make some posters and paste around the workplace.
This article is written by Shreya Dutta who is a content writer and marketer at Vantage Circle. She is passionate about all things literature and entrepreneurship. To get in touch, reach out to editor@vantagecircle.com
