Throughout your kids’ school years and life, they’ll encounter many situations where they need to work in groups. And as you encourage them to work together with their classmates, they’ll also discover the value of teamwork. To inspire them to do their best while working toward a common goal, we’ve compiled a list of team-building quotes, sourced from the knowledge of highly successful and influential individuals who learned that through teamwork we’re all capable of achieving great things!
1. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller
2. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” — Henry Ford
3. “Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” — Mattie Stepanek
4. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” — Michael Jordan
5. “It takes two flints to make a fire.” — Louisa May Alcott
6. “Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” — Patrick Lencioni
7. “None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Ken Blanchard
8. “Success is best when it’s shared.” — Howard Schultz
9. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” — Phil Jackson
10. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford
11. “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” — Steve Jobs
12. “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” — Virginia Burden
13. “The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” — James Cash Penney
14. “Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.” — Unknown
15. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” — Napoleon Hill
16. “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” — H.E. Luccock
17. “The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.” — Lee Iacocca
18. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” — Ryunosuke Satoro
19. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” — Booker T. Washington
20. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.” — Andrew Carnegie
21. “A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.” — Simon Sinek
22. “To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one.” — Mike Krzyzewski
23. “The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” — Lewis B. Ergen
24. “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” — Isaac Newton
25. “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
26. “You add value to people when you value them.” — John Maxwell
27. “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
28. “Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.” — Ted Sundquist
29. “We = power.” — Lorii Myers
30. “Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.” — Becka Schoettle
31. “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.” — Babe Ruth
32. “The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect creativity with technology.” — Steve Jobs
33. “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
34. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon
35. “Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.” — Mike Schmoker
36. “Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.” — Stephen Covey
37. “The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.” — John Wooden
38. “A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.” — Swahili Proverb
39. “Politeness is the poison of collaboration.” — Edwin Land
40. “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” — Kenyan Proverb
41. “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” — George Shinn
42. “You are either supporting the vision or supporting division.” — Saji Ijiyemi
43. “No matter how tough the chase is, you should always have the dream you saw on the first day. It’ll keep you motivated and rescue you (from any weak thoughts).” — Jack Ma
44. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” — Harry Truman
45. “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
46. “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
47. “When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.” — Russel Honore
48. “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi
49. “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
50. “Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.” — Lance Armstrong
51. “When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.” — Marissa Mayer
52. “The bigger the dream, the more important the team.” — Robin Sharma
53. “Without teamwork, there is no way that the company is going to experience success. In teams, individuals will work together and accomplish a lot more that what they do by themselves.” — Michael Welton
54. “Your company’s most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.” — Brian Tracy
55. “Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.” — Simon Mainwaring
56. “It’s better to have a great team than a team of greats.” — Simon Sinek
57. “There’s nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.” — Billy Martin
58. “In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.” — Mark Sanborn
59. “The whole is other than the sum of the parts.” — Kurt Koffka
60. “Cooperation is less stressful than competition.” — Unknown
61. “When ‘I’ is replaced by ‘We’, even ‘illness’ becomes ‘wellness’.” — Malcolm X
62. “The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other.” — Thomas Stallkamp
63. “Teamwork makes the dream work.” — John C. Maxwell
64. “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” — Patrick Lencioni
65. “Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.” — Ifeanyi Onuoha
66. “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
67. “In union there is strength.” — Aesop
68. “In the end, the most important thing is not to do things by yourself or do things alone, but to do things together with others.” — Unknown
69. “Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow.” — Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
70. “A group becomes a team when all members are sure enough of themselves and their contributions to praise the skill of others.” — Norman Shidle
71. “If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.” — Darryl F. Zanuck
72. “None of us alone can do as well as all of us together.” — Harvey MacKay
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