Team Motivation Quotes:

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Business, Desire, No Trust, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Selling

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

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

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Teamwork, Money, Business, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.

- Rensis Likert

source: Rensis Likert (1967). “The human organization: its management and value”, McGraw Hill

topic: Loyalty, Motivation, Business, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

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

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

No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Teamwork, Individuality, Rowing, Individual Work, 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

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

- Ronnie Lott

topic: Graduation, Sports, Football, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Athlete

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Persistence, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

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

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Make People Feel Better

It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters.

- Bear Bryant

topic: Athlete, Winning, Matter, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Winning

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

- Tom Peters

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Kids, Inspirational Team Building, Leadership And Management

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

- Robert Crandall

topic: Business, Team, Player, Inspirational Team Building, Leadership Teamwork

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

- Althea Gibson

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

For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.

- Zig Ziglar

source: FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 11, 2013

topic: Inspiring, Encouragement, Business, Marketing And Sales, Inspiring Sales

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Positive, Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation, Inspiring Sales

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, About Success, Failure In Life

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

- Lee Iacocca

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

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

- Gordie Howe

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Hockey, Sports Competition

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Motivational, Sports, Dog, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Hockey

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Team

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

- Tom Landry

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Confidence, Motivational Teamwork, Good Team

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Winning

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

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

- Henry Ford

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

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A. Edison

source: "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

topic: Funny, Life, Motivational, Make Me Feel Better, Makin Money

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

- Russel Honore

topic: Teamwork, Trying, Speed, Inspirational Team Building, Inspirational Teamwork

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

- Vince Lombardi

source: Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Commitment, Sports Leadership

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

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

- Wayne Dyer

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 12, 2010

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Choose Wisely, Get Over Yourself

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

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

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

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

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

- Vince Lombardi

source: Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Football, Softball Team

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

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Best Success, Inspirational Football

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

- Beverly Sills

source: "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

topic: Positive, Shortcuts, Grad, Go Hard, Inspirational Graduation

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