Team Work Motivational Quotes:

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

- Henry Ford

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

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 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 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

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 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

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

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

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

There is no substitute for hard work.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Morning, Motivation, Hard Work, May Day, Inspirational Hard Work

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

- Henry Ford

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

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

- Robert Schumann

topic: Teamwork, Play, Ensemble, Motivational Teamwork, Best Team

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

- Althea Gibson

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

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

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

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart; his heart is where his enthusiasm is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is. Treat employees as volunteers just as you treat customers as volunteers, because that's what they are. They volunteer the best parts - their hearts and minds.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Creativity, Heart, Hands, Top Management, Motivate Employees

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

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

- Peter Drucker

source: Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in a Time of Great Change”, p.90, Routledge

topic: Teamwork, Play, People, Motivational Teamwork, Playing Together

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

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

- Bill Bradley

topic: Respect, Lying, Goal, Be Respectful, Motivational Teamwork

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

- Lee Iacocca

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

A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

- Chuck Page

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

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

- Joe Paterno

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

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

- Vince Lombardi

source: Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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