80 Motivational Teamwork Quotes to Enhance Collaboration

Working as a team is easier said than done. However, when done right, it can increase productivity as well as job satisfaction. It can also improve the performance of each person on the team. If you’re looking for some motivational words to inspire your team to work together, check out this list of 80 motivational teamwork quotes that could help.  

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”  

Helen Keller

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”  

Michael Jordan

“Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.”

Pat Riley 

“Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.”

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha 

“When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.”  

Biz Stone

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

Henry Ford

“Individual commitment to a group effort that is what makes a teamwork, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”  

Vince Lombardi

“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

“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

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”  

Michael Jordan

“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

“In union there is strength.”  

Aesop

“It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team.”  

Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” 

George Shinn

“The ratio of we’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.”  

Lewis B. Ergen

“A group becomes teammates when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.”

Norman Shidle 

“Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”  

Amy Poehler

“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”  

Ryunosuke Satoro

“Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” 

Patrick Lencioni

“I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.”  

Jean-Francois Cope

“No individual can win a game by himself.”  

Pele

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

Mathew Woodring Strover 

“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.”  

Iyanla Vanzant

“It takes two flints to make a fire.”  

Louisa May Alcott

“In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly.”   

Mark Sanborn

“Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.”  

Tom J. Bouchard

“The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.”

Margaret Carty 

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”  

H.E. Luccock

“None of us is as smart as all of us.”

Ken Blanchard 

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

Barbara Glacel 

“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.”  

Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”  

Phil Jackson

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

 Steve Jobs

“Interdependent people combine their own effort with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.” 

Stephen Covey

“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.” 

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“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

“Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.”

Mike Schmoker 

“If you can laugh together, you can work together.”

Robert Orben 

“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

 “We rise by lifting others.”  

Robert Ingersoll

“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

“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

“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”  

John Rockefeller

“Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”  

Vince Lombardi

“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.”

James Cash Penney 

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

Mattie Stepanek

“Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.”  

Vince Lombardi

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot: together we can do great things.”  

Mother Teresa

“Teamwork is the lynchpin in our long-term success.” 

Ned Lautenbach

“Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.”  

Unknown

“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

“Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.”

Ted Sundquist 

“Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.” 

Simon Mainwaring

“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.”  

Mike Krzyzewski

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

Joe Paterno 

“When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.”  

Marissa Mayer

“Team spirit is knowing and living the belief that what a group of people can accomplish together is much larger, far greater, and will exceed that which an individual can accomplish alone.”  

Diane Arias

“Many hands make light work.”

Diane Arias

“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

“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.”  

James Cash Penney

“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”  

John Wooden

“Surround yourself with a trusted and loyal team. It makes all the difference.” 

Alison Pincus

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

Justin Sewell

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” 

African Proverb

“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.”

Norman Shidle 

“A leader must inspire or his team will expire.”  

Orrin Woodward

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

Chris Bradford

“Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do.”

Robert Schuller 

“Teamwork is a make or breaks the situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you.”  

Kris A. Hiatt

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

Mark Twain 

“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

“A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind.” 

Bill Bethel

“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

“Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.” 

 Marvin Weisbord

“Success is best when it’s shared.” 

Howard Schultz

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

Proverb

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”  

Phil Jackson

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

Sandra Swinney

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

Thomas Stallkamp

Wrapping Up  

Teamwork has its benefits but it can also be very challenging and requires a lot of hard work to get right and a few words of motivation certainly can help. We hope you enjoyed these quotes about teamwork and that they helped inspire you and your team. 

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Dani Rhys
Dani Rhys

Dani Rhys has worked as a writer and editor for over 15 years. She holds a Masters degree in Linguistics and Education, and has also studied Political Science, Ancient History and Literature. She has a wide range of interests ranging from ancient cultures and mythology to Harry Potter and gardening. She works as the chief editor of Symbol Sage but also takes the time to write on topics that interest her.