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We’ve all heard the saying that teamwork makes the dream work… but it turns out, it’s actually true! These teamwork quotes show the beauty of working with others to accomplish common goals.
When we focus our energies on working together, we are able to complete tasks and meet our goals in more effective and efficient ways. A great team works together cohesively towards a common goal, and creates a positive atmosphere for everyone. Its members support and encourage one another to strive for success.
Whether you’re in a team at work or play sports for fun, being part of a group can be a great force for good in your life. Supporting others and knowing that they, too, have your back can make challenges and obstacles easier to overcome.
We hope you’ll be inspired by these amazing quotes about teamwork!
Teamwork Quotes
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford
“Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”
“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
“Teamwork: simply stated, it is less me, more we. “
“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. “
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
“I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.”
“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
“It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
“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.”
“Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.”
“The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.”
“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.”
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S. Truman
“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.”
“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”
“Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.”
“The whole is other than the sum of the parts.”
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napoleon Hill
“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.”
“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.”
“Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”
“If you can laugh together, you can work together.”
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard
“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.”
“I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.”
“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.”
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.”
“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan
“Politeness is the poison of collaboration.”
“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”
“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.”
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H.E. Luccock
“When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.”
“When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.”
“Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.”
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro
“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.”
“The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.”
“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.”
“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs
“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”
“Success is best when it’s shared.”
“Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.”
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
“It takes two flints to make a fire.” – Louisa May Alcott
We hope you’ve enjoyed this collection of teamwork quotes! Though working together presents challenges, the rewards of celebrating your collective victory will always be sweet.
