Teamwork In Education Quotes:

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

- Henry Ford

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

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

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

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

- Henry Ford

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

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

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

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

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

A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

- Chuck Page

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

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

Teamwork represents a set of values that encourage behaviors such as listening and constructively responding to points of view expressed by others, giving others the benefit of the doubt, providing support to those who need it, and recognizing the interests and achievements of others.

- John Katzenbach

topic: Teamwork, Educational, Views, Providing, Benefit Of The Doubt

Light is the task where many share the toil.

- Homer

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

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

Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

- John Katzenbach

topic: Teamwork, Educational, Team Building, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Team Building

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

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

- Joe Paterno

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

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

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

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

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.

- William Schutz

topic: Teamwork, Members, Feels, Motivational Teamwork, Team Member

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

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Teamwork, Emotional, Differences, Inspirational Team Building, Inspirational 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

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

- John Katzenbach

topic: Teamwork, Support, Team Building, Behavioral Change, Team Working

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

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

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

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

- Mark Twain

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

Fun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.

- John Katzenbach

topic: Teamwork, Fun, Educational, Team Working, Teamwork In Education

Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team.

- Clay Buchholz

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

Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

- Meredith Belbin

topic: Teamwork, Mind, Want, Great Minds, Motivational Teamwork

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

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

- Lee Iacocca

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

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

- Clay Buchholz

topic: Teamwork, Team Building, Team Work, Team Working, Teamwork In Education

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

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

A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

- Donald Knuth

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

Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.

- Bruce Coslet

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

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

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Teamwork, Problem, Solve, Team Working, Teamwork And Love

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

- Dean Smith

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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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