42 Inspiring Teamwork Quotes for Better Collaboration

Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them. — Timothy Gallwey

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. — Charles Darwin

We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. — Thomas Sowell

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

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

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team’s performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people. — John C. Maxwell

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team. — John C. Maxwell

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

I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization. — Vince Lombardi

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results. — Andrew Carnegie

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

I’d rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort. — J. Paul Getty

A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually. — Francis Ford Coppola

“The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another:

 teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.” — Rocky Bleier

The years I spent in a Steelers uniform & the years I spent in the military stressed the importance of teamwork and the sacrifices you had to make to accomplish the mission.  And each emphasized individual responsibility and accountability. — Rocky Bleier

Making movies is like a circus. You get together for a finite amount of time and you build the most extravagant thing you can, which requires teamwork. Most people don’t know, but when you see something on screen, it looks perfect. If you go behind the scenes, things are very archaic. You only see the front of the building, not the back. — Joe Hahn

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful. — Mother Teresa

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. — Andrew Carnegie

Two heads are better than one. — Unknown

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. — John Cleese

The military taught me that teamwork is important, which is why I work with both Republicans and Democrats in Congress to get things done. It also taught me that everyone brings a different perspective, whether I agree with it or not, which helps me bridge the divide in Congress. — Steve Stivers

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

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

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

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren’t being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country’s future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief. — Bear Bryant

None of us is as smart as all of us. — Ken Blanchard

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation. — Homer Rice

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. — G. M. Trevelyan

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team. — Benjamin Franklin Fairless

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. — Benjamin Franklin

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. — Jim Stovall

Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ’em to play together is the hard part. — Casey Stengel

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them, I’d be at the bottom to catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say. — Tim McGraw

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. — Theodore Roosevelt

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. — Helen Keller

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. — Vince Lombardi

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. — Vince Lombardi

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes. — John Wooden

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