Teamwork makes the dream work. Iโve said this quote in the office and on Zoom. Iโve even set it as my Slack status. Turns out John C. Maxwell said it in 2002.
It remains a popular quote today, in part because he was right: If youโre aiming high, a team helps you hit the mark.
I love quotes. They take truths that we all know and boil them down into something memorable. I use quotes to keep me motivated and stay connected with my team. Thatโs why I love quotes that are connected to teamwork.
To help take teams to the next level, Iโve collected my favorite 75 quotes about collaboration, teamwork, and determination.
Quotes About Collaboration
1. โAlone we can do so little; together we can do so much.โ โ Helen Kellerย
2. โIf everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.โ โ Henry Fordย
3. โMany ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.โ โ Oliver Wendell Holmesย
4. โIf I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.โ โ Isaac Newtonย
5. โNo one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.โ โ H.E. Luccockย
6. โTeamwork 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.โ โ Andrew Carnegieย
Teamwork Quotes to Inspire Collaboration
Iโm the type of person who loves to work collaboratively. Thatโs why I love group projects that bring multiple great minds together. I can bounce ideas off my teammates and gain their insights.
If youโre looking for a bit of inspiration to get you psyched to work in a team, start with these quotes.
1. โAlone we can do so little; together we can do so much.โ โ Helen Keller (Click to Tweet.)
2. โIf everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.โ โ Henry Ford (Click to Tweet.)
3. โMany ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.โ โ Oliver Wendell Holmes (Click to Tweet.)
4. โIf I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.โ โ Isaac Newton (Click to Tweet.)
5. โNo one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.โ โ H.E. Luccock (Click to Tweet.)
6. โTeamwork 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.โ โ Andrew Carnegie (Click to Tweet.)
7. โIt is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.โ โ Charles Darwin (Click to Tweet.)
8. โComing together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.โ โ Henry Ford (Click to Tweet.)
9. โTalent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.โ โ Michael Jordan (Click to Tweet.)
10. โThe strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.โ โ Phil Jackson (Click to Tweet.)
11. โThe best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.โ โ James Cash Penney (Click to Tweet.)
12. โPoliteness is the poison of collaboration.โ โ Edwin Land (Click to Tweet.)
13. โFind a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.โ โ Amy Poehler (Click to Tweet.)
14. โEffectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.โ โ Simon Mainwaring (Click to Tweet.)
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15. โTeamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.โ โ Patrick Lencioni (Click to Tweet.)
16. โYou 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.โ โ Jim Stovall (Click to Tweet.)
17. โThe 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 donโt play together, the club wonโt be worth a dime.โ โ Babe Ruth (Click to Tweet.)
18. โThere is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.โ โ George Shinn (Click to Tweet.)
19. โIt is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.โ โ Napoleon Hill (Click to Tweet.)
20. โThe whole is other than the sum of the parts.โ โ Kurt Koffka (Click to Tweet.)
21. โA group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.โ โ Norman Shidle (Click to Tweet.)
22. โThe ratio of Weโs to Iโs is the best indicator of the development of a team.โ โ Lewis B. Ergen (Click to Tweet.)
23. โIndividual commitment to a group effort โ that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.โ โ Vince Lombardi (Click to Tweet.)
24. โOne 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.โ โ Jin Kwon (Click to Tweet.)
25. โNo matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if youโre playing a solo game, youโll always lose out to a team.โ โ Reid Hoffman (Click to Tweet.)
26. โKeep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.โ โ Mark Twain (Click to Tweet.)
27. โIf you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.โ โ Booker T. Washington (Click to Tweet.)
28. โGreat things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.โ โ Steve Jobs (Click to Tweet.)
29. โIndividually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.โ โ Ryunosuke Satoro (Click to Tweet.)
30. โCooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.โ โ Virginia Burden (Click to Tweet.)
31. โNone 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.โ โ Mother Teresa (Click to Tweet.)
32. โIt is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.โ โ Harry Truman (Click to Tweet.)
33. โIt takes two flints to make a fire.โ โ Louisa May Alcott (Click to Tweet.)
34. โThe way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.โ โ Iyanla Vanzant (Click to Tweet.)
35. โIf you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.โ โ African Proverb (Click to Tweet.)
36. โSuccess is best when it’s shared.โ โ Howard Schultz
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Hard Work Quotes to Inspire Determination
Weโve all hit a rut. Trust me, Iโve been there too. Once the caffeine wears off or when I have competing priorities on my plate, I can get so stressed that I feel paralyzed.
A little bit of motivation can get me out of my head and back to the grind. These are my favorite quotes about hard work that keep me inspired.
37. โHard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.โ โ Tim Notke (Click to Tweet.)
38. โWe think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.โ โ Ariana Huffington (Click to Tweet.)
39. โWhen the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.โ โ Dr. Dre (Click to Tweet.)
40. โSomeone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.โ โ Ginni Rometty (Click to Tweet.)
41. โHard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.โ โ Helena Rubinstein (Click to Tweet.)
42. โSatisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.โ โ Mahatma Gandhi (Click to Tweet.)
43. โI’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.โ โ Thomas Jefferson (Click to Tweet.)
44. โDiamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.โ โ Malcolm Forbes (Click to Tweet.)
45. โThe dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.โ โ Vince Lombardi Jr. (Click to Tweet.)
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Short Teamwork Quotes
Sometimes, I donโt have the time or energy to read a full motivational speech. Even a paragraph-long pep talk can feel like a big lift. Thatโs when I turn to short quotes.
These short truisms boil the big ideas about teamwork into something simple and byte-sized.
46. โTeamwork makes the dream work.โ โ John C. Maxwell (Click to Tweet.)
47. โThe bigger the dream, the more important the team.โ โ Robin Sharma (Click to Tweet.)
48. โNone of us is as smart as all of us.โ โ Ken Blanchard (Click to Tweet.)
49. โIf you take out the team in teamwork, itโs just work. Now who wants that?โ โ Matthew Woodring Stover (Click to Tweet.)
50. โTough times donโt last. Tough teams do.โ โ Robert Schuller. (Click to Tweet.)
51. โTogether, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.โ โ Becka Schoettle (Click to Tweet.)
52. โCommunication works for those who work at it.โ โ John Powell (Click to Tweet.)
53. โEffective teamwork begins and ends with communication.โ โ Mike Krzyzewski (Click to Tweet.)
54. โItโs better to have a great team than a team of greats.โ โ Simon Sinek (Click to Tweet.)
55. โEgo is the ultimate killer on a team.โ โ Patrick Lencioni (Click to Tweet.)
56. โStrategy is not a solo sport, even if youโre the CEOโ โ Max McKeown (Click to Tweet.)
57. โThere is no such thing as a โone-man showโ in a winning team.โ โ Jose B. Cabajar (Click to Tweet.)
58. โMany candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.โ โ Midrash (Click to Tweet.)
59. โWe rise by lifting others.โ โ Robert Ingersoll (Click to Tweet.)
60. โIn teamwork, silence isnโt golden. Itโs deadly.โ โ Mark Sanborn (Click to Tweet.)
Motivational Teamwork Quotes
Sometimes, I find the start of a team project to be overwhelming. There are so many things to do and the ball hasnโt even gotten rolling. These motivartional teamwork quotes help me start projects on the right foot.
61. โWhen a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes reality.โ โ Joe Paterno (Click to Tweet.)
62. โThe power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.โ โ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (Click to Tweet.)
63. โYou canโt build a reputation on what you are going to do.โ โ Henry Ford (Click to Tweet.)
64. โWhen you hand good people possibility, they do great things.โ โ Biz Stone (Click to Tweet.)
65. โIn the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.โ โ Sun Tzu (Click to Tweet.)
66. โOur destiny is not written for us, itโs written by us.โ โ Barack Obama (Click to Tweet.)
67. โEvery once in a while you hear an expert that says team chemistry is overrated. You just write that person off.โ โ Tony La Russa (Click to Tweet.)
68. โCreate an environment where people can take risks. If everything has to be brilliant from the word go, youโre never gonna get off the ground.โ โ Paul Hewson, a.k.a Bono (Click to Tweet.)
69. โEvery time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prison of the past or a pioneer of the future.โ โ Deepak Chopra (Click to Tweet.)
70. โDecency is avoiding disrespect, not avoiding disagreement. Integrity is trying to get it right, not being right.โ โ Adam Grant (Click to Tweet.)
71. โIf you want to build a ship, donโt drum up people together to collect wood and donโt assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.โ โ Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Click to Tweet.)
72. โNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.โ โ Margaret Mead (Click to Tweet.)
73. โWhen your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.โ โ Bo Schembechler (Click to Tweet.)
74. โYou are either supporting the vision or supporting division.โ โ Saji Ijiyemi (Click to Tweet.)
75. โNot finance, not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.โ โ Patrick Lencioni
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Great quotes can help motivate teams, inspire them to innovate, and get them thinking big. But quotes are just the start. For teamwork to make the dream work, businesses need the right combination of people, processes, and technologies.
Itโs this team trifecta that puts companies on the path to success.