Team Building & Teamwork Quotes

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"A boat doesn't go forward if each one is rowing their own way." Swahili proverb

"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link." Author Unknown

"A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues." Lee Iacocca

"A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle." Japanese proverb

"A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!" Author Unknown

"A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take." Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.

"All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people." Alexis Carrel

"Big thinking precedes great achievement." Wilferd Peterson

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

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." Henry Ford

"Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an 'I' in 'team.' It is the same 'I' that appears three times in 'responsibility.'" Amber Harding

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

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"Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. Casey Stengel

"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion." Mia Hamm

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

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton

"If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough." Mario Andretti

"If you can laugh together, you can work together" Robert Orben

"If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around." John Wheeler

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." Antoine de Saint

"In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory." Paul Bear Bryant

"In teamwork, silence isn't golden, it's deadly." Mark Sanborn

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

"In union there is strength." Aesop

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

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

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

"Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success." Stephen Covey

"It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone." Author Unknown

"It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit." Robert Yates

"It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you." Dwight D. Eisenhower

"It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together." Lloyd Dobens

"It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part." Casey Stengel

"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain

"Light is the task where many share the toil." Homer

"Many hands make light work." John Heywood

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent." John Donne

"No man is wise enough by himself." Titus Maccius Plautus

"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you." Althea Gibson

"No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing." Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything." B. Dodge

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

"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

"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team." Kareem Abdul Jabbar

"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

Jin Kwon

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individuality counts but team work dynamites."

"Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams." Author Unknown

"People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them." Dr. Allan Fromme

"Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder... [T]eamwork can be summed up in five short words: 'We believe in each other.'" Author Unknown

"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all." Alexander the Great

"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."

Bill Bradley

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable." Kenyan Proverb

"T.E.A.M. = Together Everyone Achieves More!" Author Unknown

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." Michael Jordan

"Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust." Author Unknown

"Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust." Dennis Kinlaw

"Teams share the burden and divide the grief. Doug Smith

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"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success." Author Unknown

"Teamwork doesn't tolerate the inconvenience of distance." Author Unknown

"Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you." Kris A Hiatt

"Teamwork is essential that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." Vince Lombardi

"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

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

Andrew Carnegie

"Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." Author Unknown

"Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we." Author Unknown

"The basic building block of good teambuilding is for a leader to promote the feeling that every human being is unique and adds value." Author Unknown

"The greatest danger a team faces isn't that it won't become successful, but that it will, and then cease to improve." Mark Sanborn

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side." Margaret Carty

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

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"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

"There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play."

William B. Given, Jr.

"We are most effective as a team when we compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear." Author Unknown

"We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle

"We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin

"Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team. Buchholz and Roth

"What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis."

W. Edward Deming

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

"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Doug Floyd

"You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough." Robert Crandall

Teamwork Quotes: 100 best Quotes about Teamworks

100 Great Teamwork Quotes and SayingsWhen two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is.Michael De SaintamoAlone we can do so little; together we can do so much.Helen KellerTalent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.Michael JordanTeamwork 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 CarnegieSo powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.Bahaullah (1817-1892); Prophet Founder Of The BahaComing together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.Henry FordIf two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.Darryl F. ZanuckThe achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.Vince LombardiThe nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.Margaret CartyIt is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.Harvey S. Firestone (1868-1938); Founder Of Firestone Tire And Rubber Company

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership FableWhen your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when you team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.Bo SchembechlerI 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 (born 1942); Singer, SongwriterIndividuals play the game, but teams beat the odds.SEAL Team sayingIt’s as simple as this. When people don’t unload their opinions and feel like they’ve been listened to, they won’t really get on board.Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership FableThe 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 RuthGreat 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, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership FableIf a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.Bud WilkinsonThe strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.Phil JacksonPeople have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.Dr. Allan Fromme…there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.Mary Barnett Gilson (1877-1959); Economist, EducatorWe = powerLorii Myers, 3 Off the Tee: Targeting SuccessIn union there is strength.Aesop

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.Alexander the GreatIt takes two flints to make a fire.Louisa May AlcottThere is incredible value in being of service to others.Elizabeth Berg – AuthorTeamwork divides the task and doubles the success.UnknownNever be content to sit on the sidelines when there is so much work to be done on the field.Susan GaleThe ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.Lewis B. ErgenIf you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.Antoine de SaintExuperyCollaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.Mike Schmoker, ResultsEver tried. Ever failed. No matter.Try again. Fail again. Fail better.Owen DouganWillingness to compromise with others’ ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make living happy and fruitful.Sri Sathya Sai Baba (born 1926); Indian Spiritual Leader, PhilosopherTrust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership FableTEAM=Together Everyone Achieve MoreWhen he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.Tibetan ProverbThe 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 LikertEven eagles need a push.David McNallyIn order to become a leading home run hitter, a batter must be surrounded by good hitters, otherwise, the pitchers will ‘pitch around’ him. Likewise, many successful people became that way from being on a good team.Laing Burns Jr.

A group becomes a team when all members are sure enough of themselves and their contributions to praise the skill of others.AnonymousIn a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted CultureA group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others.Norman ShidleThe path to greatness is along with others.Baltasar Gracion, Spanish PriestIt is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.Napoleon HillIf you first take a minute, an hour or a month to let go of feeling annoyed, frustrated or critical of the person or situation that may be driving you crazy, you set yourself up for much greater leadership and personal success.John Kuypers, Who’s The Driver Anyway? Making the Shift to a Collaborative Team CulturevIf we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.Robert SchumannOnly by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.Chris Bradford, The Way of the DragonFinding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.Casey StengelMany of us are more capable than some of us . . . but none of us is as capable as all of us!!Tom WilsonMay your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous JourneyLots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.Oprah WinfreyIt’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.Babe Ruth

Michael, if you can’t pass, you can’t play.Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year at UNCOn the field we are only as strong as we are together.Coach KoolNo individual can win a game by himself.PeléThere is no such thing as oneman show in a winning team.Jose B. CabajarTeamwork 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 F. DruckerConflict is inevitable in a team … in fact, to achieve synergistic solutions, a variety of ideas and approaches are needed. These are the ingredients for conflict. Susan Gerke, IBM, Leadership DevelopmentTogether, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.Becka SchoettlePeople who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.Vince LombardiIt doesn’t take strength to win, it takes the true heart of the team to win.emily voylesResponsibility is a big thing, can you handle itMersad DedicTeamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.Author UnknownThe 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 DePreeNo one can whistle a symphony.  It takes a whole orchestra to play it.H.E. LuccockA team that sweats together sticks together.UnknownIndividual commitment to a group effort  that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince LombardiWe’re a team. One person struggles, we all struggle. One person triumphs, we all triumph.Unknown

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.Max DePreeMany hands make light work.John HeywoodTeamwork is a well blended peculiarities.Jose B. CabajarOne 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 team work dynamites.Jin KwonNo man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.John DonneMan has never achieved anything, but mankind has discovered the world.unknownCooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.Virginia BurdenSticks in a bundle are unbreakable.Kenyan ProverbNone of us is as smart as all of us.Ken BlanchardCompetition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945);32nd U.S. PresidentWe can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.Hunter Campbell “Patch” Adams (born 1945)Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an I in team.  It is the same I that appears three times in responsibility.Amber HardingSociety is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner’s success as a means for the attainment of his own.Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973);Austrian School EconomistA man may do an immense deal of good, if he does not care who gets the credit for it.Father Strickland, 1863 (Thanks, Garson O’Toole!)Team means Together Everyone Achieves More!Author Unknown

We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately.Benjamin FranklinYou can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.A. A. Milne (1882-1956);English Author, Best Known For His Books About Winnie The PoohNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.Margaret MeadeRegardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder… Teamwork can be summed up in five short words:  We believe in each other.Author UnknownA chain is only as strong as its weakest link.Author UnknownA single leaf working alone provides no shade.Chuck PageIf everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.Henry FordI am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.Mia HammTeamwork 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 TracyThe ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.Lewis B. ErgenRespect 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.Bill BradleyTOGETHER we stand, TOGETHER we fall, TOGETHER we win, and winners take ALL.TC Volleyball TeamNo member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.Ralph Waldo EmersonA snowflake is one of God’s most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!Author UnknownGettin’ good players is easy.  Gettin’ ‘em to play together is the hard part.Casey Stengel

It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone.Author UnknownA successful team beats with one heart.UnknownSure there’s no I in team, but there is a ME!Author UnknownThere is no limit to what can be accomplished when none cares who gets the creditUnknownEvery team needs a hero, every hero needs a team.UnknownIndividually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.Emma