Team Work Inspirational Quotes:

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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.

- Patrick Lencioni

topic: Teamwork, Knowing, Doe, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

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 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

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

- Joe Paterno

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

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

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

- Donald Knuth

topic: Strong, Links, Lists, Sports Team, Inspirational Team

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

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

- Lee Iacocca

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

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

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

- Henry Ford

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

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

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

- Pat Riley

source: Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

topic: Teamwork, Important, Indispensable, Team Work Inspirational

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

- Mark Twain

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

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

- Max De Pree

topic: Teamwork, Real, Groups, Inspirational Teamwork, Team Work Inspirational

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

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

- Magic Johnson

topic: Teamwork, Champion, Publicity, Winning Championships, Championship Team

A demanding performance challenge tends to create a Team. In any situation requiring a combination of multiple skills, experiences and judgments, a team inevitably gets better results than a collection of individuals. Teams provide the kind of responsiveness, speed, on-line customization and quality that is beyond the reach of individual performance.

- John Katzenbach

topic: Teamwork, Educational, Skills, Individual Performance, Inspirational Teamwork

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

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

- Stephen Covey

topic: Teamwork, Lying, Inspiration, Inspiring Team Building, 7 Habits

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

- Peter Drucker

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

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

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

A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: Teamwork, People, Failing, 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

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

- Henry Ford

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

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

Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team.

- Clay Buchholz

topic: Teamwork, Team Building, Team Work, Inspirational Team Building, Inspirational Teamwork

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

- Jason Kidd

topic: Team, Years, Play, Inspirational Team Building, Inspirational Teamwork

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

It takes two flints to make a fire.

- Louisa May Alcott

topic: Love, Inspirational, Inspiring, Inspirational Teamwork, Best Team

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

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

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

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

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

- Dean Smith

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Play, Sports Team, Inspirational Team

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

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

Light is the task where many share the toil.

- Homer

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

The path to greatness is along with others.

- Baltasar Gracian

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

Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.

- Robert Bales

topic: Teamwork, Jobs, Organization, Team Member, Team Work Inspirational