75 Teamwork Quotes That Remind Us All That We’re Better When We Work Together

In business, sports, families and organizations, teamwork is all about sharing ideas and tasks to get a job done in the best possible way. A good team will work in a way that cheers each other on and uses each other's strengths. After putting a team together. it might be a good idea to boost morale with teamwork quotes that offer plenty of encouragement to proceed in the right frame of mind.

Providing inspirational quotes on teamwork can be done in a variety of ways. You can hang quotes on the wall of a meeting room or you could use quotes about collaboration in emails. Of course, a good quote recited at any meeting will also go a long way in pumping up your team. Whether team members begin to go their own way, or leaders need to step back and remember what really matters, a little reminder of what a team is will help keep everyone on track.

If you don't know quite what to say to encourage your team, we've got you covered! These 75 teamwork quotes are super motivating.

Best Teamwork Quotes

1. "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." – Helen Keller

2. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. "In union, there is strength." –Aesop

4. "It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed." –Napolean Hill

5. "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." – Booker T. Washington

6. “To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority.” – Christine Caine

7. "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

8. “A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.” – Barbara Glacel

9. “Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results” – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

10. "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." – Henry Ford

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11. “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs

12. “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

13. “In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly.” – Mark Sanborn

14. "Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up." – Oliver Wendell Holmes

15. “When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.” ― Biz Stone

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Motivational Teamwork Quotes

16. “Gettin’ good players is easy. Gettin’ ’em to play together is the hard part.” – Casey Stengel

17. "A team is not a group of people who work together but a team is a group of people who trust each other.” — Simon Sinek

18. "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." – Isaac Newton

19. “Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.” –Vesta M. Kelly

20. “Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.” — Amit Ray

21. "No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it." –H.E. Luccock

22. “When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.” – Joe Paterno

23. “The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” — Margaret Carty

24. "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

25. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

26. “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.

27. "The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." – Phil Jackson

28. “Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.” – Anonymous

29. “Many hands make light work.” –John Heywood

30. "The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison." – James Cash Penney

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Inspirational Teamwork Quotes

31. "Politeness is the poison of collaboration." – Edwin Land

32. “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” – Matthew Woodring Stover

33. "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." –Ryunosuke Satoro

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

35. “Synergy – the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.” – Mark Twain

36. "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

37. "There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others." – George Shinn

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38. “A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.” – Proverb

39. "Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." –Vince Lombardi

40. "A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others." – Norman Shidle

41. “Not finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.” — Patrick Lencioni

42. "What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change." –Madeleine Albright

43. “None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard”

44. “A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.” – Swahili Proverb

45. "The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team." – Lewis B. Ergen

Teamwork Quotes That Inspire Collaboration

46. “Teams are incredible things. No task is too great, no accomplishment too grand, no dream too far-fetched for a team. It takes teamwork to make the dream work.” — John Maxwell

47. “Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.” – Justin Sewell

48. "One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but teamwork dynamites." – Jin Kwon

49. “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” – Theodore Roosevelt

50. "No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team." – Reid Hoffman

51. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

52. “It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.” – Sandra Swinney

53. "Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there." – Virginia Burden

54. “Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us.” — Tom Wilson

55. “Teams share the burden and divide the grief” – Doug Smith

56. "It takes two flints to make a fire." – Louisa May Alcott

57. “When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.” — Marissa Mayer

58. “A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind.” – Bill Bethel

59. “Bad attitudes will ruin your team.” – Terry Bradshaw

60. "The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first." – Iyanla Vanzant

Quotes About Working Together

61. “A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken.” — Bonnie Edelstein

62. “We're a team. It's part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we'd never get anything done.” –Jeramey Kraatz

63. “What separates the good players from a great player is that a great player is willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

64. "Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about." –Sheryl Sandberg

65. “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” – Doug Floyd

66. “You are either supporting the vision or supporting division.” — Saji Ijiyemi

67. “A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues.” – Lee Iacocca

68. “A single leaf working alone provides no shade.” – Chuck Page

69. "I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things." –Mother Teresa

70. “Teamwork does not come naturally. Let’s face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn’t one of them.” – Pat Summitt

71. “Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” – Emily Kimbrough

72. “There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.” – Idowu Koyenikan

73. “Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do.” — Robert Schuller

74. “The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other.” — Thomas Stallkamp

75. “Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.” –Chris Bradford

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