Cooperation Teamwork Quotes:

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, Individual Performance, Marriage Advice

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

- Henry Ford

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

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

- Simon Sinek

source: Twitter post from Nov 17, 2014

topic: Team, People, Working Together, Team Building, Cooperation And Collaboration

The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.

- Simon Sinek

source: Twitter post from Sep 20, 2013

topic: Team, People, Together, Cooperation And Collaboration, Cooperation Teamwork

It's better to have a great team than a team of greats.

- Simon Sinek

source: Twitter post from Jun 29, 2009

topic: Team, Great Team, Cooperation Teamwork

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

- Mattie Stepanek

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Teamwork, Collaborating, Inspirational Team

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

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Inspirational Football, Individual Performance

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

- Helen Keller

source: "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty, Joint Efforts, Inspirational Team

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

- Vince Lombardi

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

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

- Phil Jackson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Individual Power, Inspirational Team

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

- Halford Luccock

topic: Life, Teamwork, Science, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

The path to greatness is along with others.

- Baltasar Gracian

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

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Meaningful, Infinite Hope, Kings And Love

Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here than those of any other institution. This is as it should be, for not two universities are closer together in every way than Michigan State and Michigan.

- Fielding H. Yost

topic: Team, Two, Together, Arbors, Cooperation Teamwork

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

- Althea Gibson

topic: Motivational, History, Accomplishment, Inspirational Team Building, Inspirational Teamwork

A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

- Chuck Page

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

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Motivational, Success, Teamwork, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Teamwork

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

- Mark Twain

topic: Teamwork, Together, Bonus, Inspirational Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says Lets GO!

- Harry Gordon Selfridge

topic: Leadership, Letting Go, People, Subordination, Good Will

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

- Alexander the Great

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

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

Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Heart, Multiplying, Cooperation And Collaboration

A successful team beats with one heart.

- Sarah-Jane Redmond

topic: Sports, Team, Heart, Inspirational Teamwork, Successful Team

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Diversity, Evil, Atheism, Evil Things, Evil World

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

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

- Mia Hamm

topic: Soccer, Teamwork, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Soccer, Individual Performance

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

If you can laugh together, you can work together.

- Robert Orben

source: Robert Orben (2000). “Speaker's Handbook of Humor”, Merriam Webster

topic: Teamwork, Inspiration, Laughing, Motivational Teamwork, Team Building

Many hands make light work.

- John Heywood

source: John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.221

topic: Change, Teamwork, Hands, Many Hands, Inspirational Team

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

- Patrick Lencioni

source: Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Mistake, Inspiring Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

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

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

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

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

It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.

- Ralph Charell

topic: Success, Teamwork, Competition, Cooperation And Teamwork, Cooperation Teamwork

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Teamwork, Business, Independent, Cooperation And Teamwork, Cooperation Teamwork

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

- Bertrand Russell

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

The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

- Mia Hamm

source: Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

topic: Team, Champion, Individual, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Soccer

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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Teamwork, Winning, Thinking, Individual Goals, Individual Performance

Light is the task where many share the toil.

- Homer

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

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Teamwork, Learning, Mean, Inspirational Team Building, Win Win

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

The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential...the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons.

- Max De Pree

topic: Teamwork, Art, Keys, Cooperation And Teamwork, Cooperation Teamwork

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

- Paul McCartney

source: "John Rutter: The Art Of The Christmas Carol". Interview with Andrea Seabrook, www.npr.org. December 20, 2008.

topic: Teamwork, Real, Optimistic, Cooperating, Inspirational Teamwork

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Winning, Share, Team Building, Cooperation And Collaboration

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Jobs, Ocean, People, Maritime, Innovative Leadership