Teamwork Quotes:

No one man is superior to the game.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

topic: Teamwork, Men, Games, One Man

For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.

- Adam Rickitt

topic: Teamwork, Real, Differences

In union there is strength.

- Aesop

topic: Teamwork, Unions

Sports can unite a group of people from different backgrounds, all working together to achieve a common goal. And even if they fall short, sharing that journey is an experience they'll never forget. It can teach some of the most fundamental and important human values: dedication, perseverance, hard work, and teamwork. It also teaches us how to handle our success and cope with our failure. So, perhaps the greatest glory of sport is that is teaches us so much about life itself.

- Ahmad Rashad

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Perseverance, Common Goal

Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression.

- Ahmed Yassin

topic: Teamwork, Israel, People

An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

- Aimee Mullins

topic: Sports, Teamwork, Pain

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

- Akio Morita

topic: Teamwork, Heart, Exercise, Teamwork And Love

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

- Alain Prost

topic: Teamwork, Team, Littles

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Soccer, Teamwork, Stories

The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: Teamwork, Player, Embrace

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Teamwork, Discovery, Mind

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

- Alexander the Great

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Motivational Sports, Spiritual Unity, Inspirational Team

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

- Alexis Carrel

topic: Teamwork, Helping Others, People, Team Building, Team Building Inspiration

People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

- Allan Fromme

topic: Teamwork, People, Achieve, Working With Others, Inspirational Team

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

- Allan Sloan

topic: Teamwork, Isolation, Columnists, Teamwork And Love

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

- Alphonso Jackson

topic: Teamwork, Rights, Class

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

- Anais Nin

topic: Teamwork, War, Fate, Unison

People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

- Anatoli Boukreev

topic: Teamwork, People, Pay

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

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork, Individual Power, Individual Work

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Teamwork, Vision, Working Together

Team spirit elevates with a broad-based contribution to the group effort. It's especially important for the high-performing leader to avoid the situation of one or two people being the only contributors during a meeting.

- Andrew J Dubrin

topic: Teamwork, Two, People, Team Spirit, Group Effort

Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.

- Ann Veneman

topic: Teamwork, Cows, Canada, Dairy, Dairy Cows

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

- Anthony Anderson

topic: Teamwork, Art, Team

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Teamwork, Character, Golf, Strength Of Mind

Nobody gets muscles by watching ME lift weights.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Teamwork, Weight, Muscles

Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.

- Atul Gawande

topic: Teamwork, Motivation, Inspiration, Checklists, Different Values

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Dance, Teamwork, Motivation, Creativeness, Creative People

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork, Baseball Games, Softball Player

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

- Bai Ling

topic: Teamwork, Men, Talking, Carefree

The path to greatness is along with others.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Teamwork, Greatness, Path, Inspirational Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

- Baron de Montesquieu

topic: Teamwork, Men, People

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.

- Barry Boehm

topic: Teamwork, Cost, Management, Mismanagement, Software Development

In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory.

- Bear Bryant

topic: Teamwork, Player, Order, Team Building, Team First

The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

- Bear Bryant

topic: Teamwork, Country, Football

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

- Bear Bryant

topic: Teamwork, Believe, Organization, High Goals

My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren't able to look after yourself and each other, then people die.

- Bear Grylls

source: "Leading questions: Bear Grylls, chief Scout" by Jane Dudman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2011.

topic: Teamwork, Adventure, People, Look After Yourself

Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.

- Benazir Bhutto

source: Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989”

topic: Teamwork, Support, Together, Democratic Values, Promoting

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Teamwork, Peace, Unity, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Teamwork

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

- Benjamin Spock

topic: Teamwork, May, Quiet

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Change, Teamwork, Collaboration, Win Win, Social Change

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

- Bill Bradley

topic: Teamwork, Leader, Should

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

- Bill Bradley

topic: Teamwork, Best Team

The point of the game is not how well the individual does, but whether the team wins. That's the beautiful heart of the game, the blending of personalities, the mutual sacrifices for the group success.

- Bill Bradley

source: Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.186, RosettaBooks

topic: Beautiful, Teamwork, Heart, Softball Team, Beautiful Heart

We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.

- Bill Joy

topic: Teamwork, Trying, Want

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

- Bill McCartney

topic: Teamwork, Player, Coaching

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

- Bill Shankly

topic: Funny, Teamwork, Football, Football Team

There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

- Bill Simmons

topic: Basketball, Soccer, Teamwork, Tipping Point, Soccer Team

Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.

- Bill T. Jones

topic: Teamwork, Art, Thinking, Abstract Thinking

The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

- Bill Walton

topic: Teamwork, Grateful, Believe, Teamwork And Love, Message Of Hope

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

- Bill Walton

topic: Basketball, Teamwork, Growing Up, Boston Celtics

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

- Billy Corgan

topic: Teamwork, Thinking, Feet

We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.

- Bo Gritz

topic: Teamwork, Home, Long

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.

- Bo Gritz

topic: Teamwork, Effort, Midnight, Crossings, Pow

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

topic: Teamwork, Believe, Winning, Inspiring Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

- Bob Feller

source: "Once Upon a Game: Baseball's Greatest Memories". Book by Bob Feller, www.nytimes.com. 2007.

topic: Teamwork, Baseball, Men, Baseball Team

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

- Bob Hayes

topic: Sports, Teamwork, Blessed, Professional Sports, Dallas Cowboy

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

- Bobby Bowden

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Teamwork, Graves

Either love your players or get out of coaching.

- Bobby Dodd

topic: Teamwork, Love You, Player

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.

- Bobby Knight

topic: Basketball, Teamwork, Coaching, Good Sense Of Humor, Press Conferences

Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.

- Bruce Coslet

topic: Teamwork, Needed, Inspirational Team Building, Winning Team, Team Goal

The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.

- Bruce Coslet

topic: Teamwork, Player, Giving, Inspirational Teamwork, Team Player

However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.

- Bruce McCulloch

topic: Teamwork, Smart, Two, Dumb Guy, Smart Guy

You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?

- Bud Abbott

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Teamwork, Fighting, Comedy

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

- Bud Abbott

source: "Fictional character: Dexter Broadhurst". "The Naughty Nineties", 1945.

topic: Teamwork, Team, Firsts

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

- Bud Wilkinson

source: Bud Wilkinson (1993). “Football: Winning Offense”, p.13, Sports Illustrated

topic: Teamwork, Player, Goal, Inspirational Football, Sports Team

With wolves, solidarity is first but when they hunt, they change roles. The implicit hierarchy depends on who does what. In an organization one unique person makes a difference, but you need teamwork to make it happen.

- C. K. Prahalad

topic: Teamwork, Unique, Organization

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

- Carl Lewis

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Sports, Teamwork, Kids, Learning Lessons

Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Teamwork, Mistake, Missing, Kepler, Mendel

The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.

- Carly Patterson

topic: Teamwork, Winning, Gold

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

- Carol Burnett

topic: Teamwork, Winning, Cost, Winning Team

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Teamwork, Player, Together, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Teamwork, Player, Together, Inspirational Team Building, Playing Together

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Motivational, Teamwork, Baseball, Sports Team, Motivational Baseball

The thing I received from Girl Scouts more than anything else was a sense of real teamwork and working for the community, helping others, and it was not competitive. I remember working as a group to achieve a goal or to help the community. There was a great sense of accomplishment in that.

- Cathy Rigby

source: "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect". abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

topic: Girl, Teamwork, Real, Sense Of Accomplishment, Girl Scout

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.23, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Teamwork, Creativity, Knowledge, Importunate, Collaborating

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and other have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

- Charles Goodyear

topic: Teamwork, Regret, Men

Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.

- Chris Bradford

source: Chris Bradford (2010). “The Way of the Dragon (Young Samurai, Book 3): The Way of the Dragon”, p.194, Penguin UK

topic: Teamwork, Strong, Together, Inspiring Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there's anything the Steelers of the '70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork.

- Chuck Noll

topic: Teamwork, Football, Thinking, Steelers

Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

- Chuck Noll

topic: Teamwork, Pressure, Feels, Great Coach, Great Coaching

A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

- Chuck Page

topic: Teamwork, Shade, Leafs, Motivational Teamwork, Working Alone

I think a lot of our team commitment is a silent understanding that each one of us has poured our life into what we're doing.

- Claire Carver-Dias

topic: Teamwork, Commitment, Thinking

If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Teamwork, Responsibility, Thinking

That's one of my jobs, just trying to do what I can to help this team out as much as possible.

- Cobi Jones

topic: Teamwork, Jobs, Trying

When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.

- Confucius

topic: Teamwork, Self, Looks, Confucianism, Reflection Of Yourself

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

- Coretta Scott King

source: Coretta Scott King's address at Georgia State University, February 15, 2000.

topic: Teamwork, Greatness, Community

Care for all the animals they need our help Care for all the children stop thinking of ourselves. And if we work together to try for harmony Someday we will live in peace

- Country Joe McDonald

topic: Teamwork, Children, Thinking

We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

- Cynthia McKinney

topic: Teamwork, Powerful, Wall, Commonality, Amnesty International

Let us join our efforts toward building the unshakable foundations for a culture of peace.

- Daisaku Ikeda

topic: Teamwork, Effort, Foundation

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

- Daley Thompson

topic: Sports, Teamwork, Good Team, Sports Leadership, Teamwork And Leadership

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

topic: Teamwork, Time, Jobs, Inspiring Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. It's about consensus and teamwork and respectful critical argument, working with, and through, natural law. It requires that we utter, frequently, those hateful words - 'I might be wrong.'

- David Brin

source: David Brin (2012). “Existence”, p.340, Macmillan

topic: Teamwork, Honesty, Law

Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

- David Gill

topic: Teamwork, Eight, Years

A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.

- David Ogilvy

topic: Teamwork, Baseball, Running, Baseball Team

I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

- David Robinson

topic: Teamwork, Winning, Player

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Teamwork, Men, Islands, Greater Purpose, Your Purpose In Life

Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.

- Dennis F. Kinlaw

topic: Teamwork, Destiny, Ideas, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.

- Dennis F. Kinlaw

topic: Teamwork, Strong, Pride, Inspirational Teamwork, Personal Worth

Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a better future for our children.

- Dith Pran

topic: Teamwork, Children, Together, Happening Again, Human Rights Day

The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

- Don Bluth

topic: Teamwork, Heart, Thinking, Interactive, Animated Movies

The one man team is a complete and total myth.

- Don Shula

topic: Teamwork, Team, Men, Team Motivational

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

- Dontrelle Willis

topic: Teamwork, Heart, Done

Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

- Douglas B. Reeves

source: Douglas B. Reeves (2012). “Transforming Professional Development into Student Results”, p.50, ASCD

topic: Teamwork, Practice, Skills, Building A Team, Team Effort

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

- Douglas McGregor

topic: Teamwork, Boss, Prestige, Inspirational Teamwork, Team Collaboration

Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.

- Duane G. Carey

topic: Teamwork, Space, Looking Forward

Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.

- Dustin Diamond

topic: Teamwork, Business, Kids, Social Skills, Teamwork And Leadership

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Teamwork, People, Three, Team Collaboration, Team Member

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Teamwork, Lying, Challenges

No team works out teamwork.

- Dwyane Wade

topic: Basketball, Teamwork, Work Out

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Teamwork, People, Done

It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.

- Ed Belfour

topic: Teamwork, Successful, Two, Two Guys

In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork". For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit". Very.

- Edsger Dijkstra

topic: Teamwork, People, May, Team Spirit

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Teamwork, Real, Stupid, Team Building, Funny Teamwork

Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Teamwork, Creativity, Thinking, Creative Power, Creative Thinking

As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.

- Edward Witten

topic: Teamwork, Everyday, Together, Everyday Life

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

- Edwin Land

topic: Teamwork, Decision, Collaboration

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

topic: Sports, Teamwork, Business, Employee Appreciation, Employee Recognition

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

- Ellen Key

topic: Teamwork, Peace, Military, Barbarity, Against War

You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.

- Emma Stone

topic: Sports, Teamwork, Strong

Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together

- Felix Dennis

topic: Teamwork, Together, Glue

I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.

- Florynce Kennedy

topic: Teamwork, Fall, House

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually.

- Francis Ford Coppola

topic: Teamwork, Numbers, Together, Above And Beyond

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Teamwork, Competition, Collaboration, Economic Competition, Cooperation And Collaboration

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

- Fred Allen

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Teamwork

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

- G. M. Trevelyan

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Teamwork, Get It Done, Team Success

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

- Garrett Camp

topic: Teamwork, Ideas, Great Idea

You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.

- George Halas

topic: Teamwork, Philosophy, Games, Lombardi, Single Sentence

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

- George Lois

topic: Inspirational, Teamwork, Creativity

A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.

- George Washington

topic: Teamwork, Moving, Men

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

- Georges Bernanos

topic: Teamwork, Peace, Flower, Meadows

Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.

- Georges Wolinski

topic: Teamwork, Half, Explaining

The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.

- Giordano Bruno

topic: Teamwork, Iron, Hammers

In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.

- Graca Machel

topic: Teamwork, Children, Support

Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

- Greg Brown

topic: Teamwork, Ambition, Incentives, Persuading, Greater Good

Well, unless you're Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan, you need the full support of your team.

- Greg Louganis

topic: Teamwork, Support, Needs, Gretzky

We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.

- Gro Harlem Brundtland

topic: Teamwork, People, Community, Visions Of The Future, Shared Vision

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

- Guy Ritchie

topic: Teamwork, Smart, Too Much, Teamwork And Love

There is no i in team, but there is no team without individuals.

- Hannah

topic: Teamwork, Team, Individual, There Is No I In Team

Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.

- Harold S. Kushner

topic: Teamwork, People, Quality, Desolate

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

- Helen Keller

topic: Teamwork, Welfare, Interconnection

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Teamwork, Letting Go, Marching Forward, Joint Efforts

If two people agree, one of them is unnecessary.

- Henry Ford

topic: Teamwork, Two, People

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

- Henry Ford

topic: Motivational, Teamwork, Business, Inspirational Team Building, Pulling Together

All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Teamwork, Unions, Danger

There's so much spontaneity involved, what do you practice? How do you practice teamwork? How do you practice sharing? How do you practice daring? How do you practice being nonjudgmental?

- Herbie Hancock

topic: Music, Teamwork, Practice

Light is the task where many share the toil.

- Homer

topic: Teamwork, Light, Toil, Inspirational Team Building, Inspirational Teamwork

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

- Homer Rice

topic: Motivational, Teamwork, Self, Inspirational Athlete, Motivate Athletes

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

- Howard Hodgkin

topic: Teamwork, Self, Want, Self Sufficient

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

- Hugh Downs

topic: Teamwork, Fate, Boat

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

- Ike Turner

topic: Girl, Teamwork, Cutting

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

- Isaac Newton

source: "Wilson vs Watson: The Blessing of Great Enemies". www.newscientist.com. September 10, 2009.

topic: Inspirational, Teamwork, Humility, Inspiring Team Building, Motivational Teamwork

When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.

- J. Richard Hackman

topic: Teamwork, Motivation, Commitment

People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted.

- Jack Welch

topic: Teamwork, People, Norm

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

- James Cash Penney

topic: Inspirational, Teamwork, Men, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

- Jason Kidd

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Witty, Sports Team, Funniest Sports

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

- Jean-Francois Cope

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Teamwork, Great Teamwork, Unity And Teamwork

As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content.

- Jeff Bridges

topic: Teamwork, Roots, Way

San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates.

- Jeremy Sumpter

topic: Teamwork, Hate, Team

It takes two hands to clap.

- Jiang Zemin

topic: Teamwork, Hands, Two, Two Hands

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

- Jim Bouton

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Baseball, Baseball Games, Sports Football

Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

- Jim Brown

topic: Teamwork, Gone, Crowds

As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.

- Jim George

topic: Teamwork, Selfishness

Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.

- Jody Williams

source: Jody Williams, Eve Ensler (2013). “My Name is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize”, p.245, Univ of California Press

topic: Teamwork, One Day, Together

Making movies is like a circus. You get together for a finite amount of time and you build the most extravagant thing you can, which requires teamwork. Most people don't know, but when you see something on screen, it looks perfect. If you go behind the scenes, things are very archaic. You only see the front of the building, not the back.

- Joe Hahn

source: "Director Joe Hahn Talks MALL, Why He Chose This Material as His First Feature, the Casting Process, His Music Video Background, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2014.

topic: Teamwork, People, Perfect

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

- Joe Lhota

topic: Teamwork, Important, Awful

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

- Joe Paterno

topic: Teamwork, Confidence, Reality, Individual Performance, Individual Work

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent

- Johan Cruijff

topic: Teamwork, Winning, Goal

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Positive, Teamwork, Responsibility

Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Teamwork, Opportunity, Reality

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Dream, Dream Team, Teamw

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

- John Cleese

topic: Teamwork, Business, Fun, Humor And Laughter, Creative Business

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

- John Donne

source: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

topic: Teamwork, Men, Islands, Indivisible, Inspirational Diversity

I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

- John Lennon

topic: Teamwork, World, Someday, Dreamy, Imagine That

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

- John Madden

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork, Inspirational Football, Great Sports

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

- John Madden

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Soccer, Teamwork, Gratitude, Easy Street

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

- John Madden

topic: Success, Teamwork, Sports, Best Coaches, Inspirational Coaching

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

- John Ortberg

topic: Teamwork, Water, Want

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Teamwork, Government, Hardship

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

- John Wooden

topic: Life, Basketball, Teamwork, Inspirational Coach, Basketball Coaching

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

- John Wooden

topic: Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

Confidence comes from being prepared.

- John Wooden

topic: Teamwork, Prepared, Motivational Wrestling, Great Coach, Famous Coach

A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, that's teamwork.

- John Wooden

topic: Teamwork, Player, Groups

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

- John Wooden

topic: Teamwork, Team, Members, Team Member

Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.

- John Wooden

topic: Basketball, Teamwork, Nba

What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

- Johnny Damon

topic: Teamwork, Team, Hot

Teams do not seek consensus; they seek the best answer.

- Jon Katzenbach

topic: Teamwork, Team, Answers, Inspirational Teamwork

What sets apart high-performance teams, however, is the degree of commitment, particularly how deeply committed the members are to one another.

- Jon Katzenbach

source: Jon Katzenbach, Douglas Smith (2016). “High-Performance Teams: The Katzenbach-Smith Collection (2 Books)”, p.154, Harvard Business Review Press

topic: Teamwork, Commitment, Degrees, Inspirational Teamwork

Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders.

- Jon Katzenbach

source: Jon Katzenbach, Douglas Smith (2015). “The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization”, p.7, Harvard Business Review Press

topic: Teamwork, Real, Sight

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

- Jon Postel

source: "NetWorker" Magazine, Summer 1997.

topic: Teamwork, People, Together

You must have discipline to have fun.

- Julia Child

source: "Julia Child: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 15, 2014.

topic: Teamwork, Fun, Discipline

At the end of the day government is about teamwork and partnership and we will be proving that by working together.

- Julia Gillard

topic: Teamwork, Government, Working Together

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

source: Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Athlete, Drills, Inspirational Athlete

We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.

- Keith Ferrazzi

topic: Teamwork, Communication, Views

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

- Keith Richards

topic: Teamwork, Rock And Roll, Rocks, Elevating

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

- Ken Auletta

source: Ken Auletta, Terence Smith, John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy, University of Notre Dame (2005). “Whom do journalists work for?”

topic: Teamwork, Independence, Journalist, Teamwork And Love

Winning isn't as important as doing well individually. You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate.

- Ken Landreaux

topic: Teamwork, Baseball, Winning, Front Office

Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.

- Ken Olsen

topic: Teamwork, Years, Accepted, Teamwork And Love

Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.

- Ken Robinson

topic: Teamwork, Growth, Collaboration, Cooperation And Collaboration

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.

- Knute Rockne

topic: Motivational, Teamwork, Play, Inspirational Football Coach, Inspirational Teamwork

Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Teamwork, Ecosystems, Play, Stewards, Being Responsible

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

- Kurt Russell

topic: Teamwork, Stars, Years