50 Inspiring Team Quotes For Success And Collaboration

The term “team” typically refers to a group of individuals working together to achieve a common goal or objective. Teams are often formed within organizations, businesses, sports, or various other contexts where collaboration and collective effort are required to accomplish tasks or projects. Teams can vary in size, structure, and purpose. They can be small or large, temporary or permanent, and may consist of individuals with diverse skills and expertise. Effective teamwork involves communication, cooperation, and the shared commitment of team members toward a common objective. Teams can be found in various settings, including professional environments, sports, academic institutions, community groups, and more. The concept of teamwork emphasizes the idea that individuals working together can often achieve more than they could individually, leveraging the strengths and skills of each team member.

Team Quotes

1. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
— Michael Jordan

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

3. “None of us is as smart as all of us.”
— Ken Blanchard

4. “By working together, pooling our resources, and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.”
— Ronald Reagan

5. “Collaboration is multiplication.”
— John C. Maxwell

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

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

8. “If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
— Michael Jordan

9. “There is no ‘i’ in team but there is in win.”
— Michael Jordan

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

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

12. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
— Napoleon Hill

13. “A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.”
— George Washington

14. “Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”
— John C. Maxwell

15. “To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.”
— John C. Maxwell

16. “A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don’t be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.”
— Pelé

17. “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
— William Butler Yeats

18. “Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.”
— Alexander the Great

19. “Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline of developing a shared vision. It also builds on personal mastery, for talented teams are made up of talented individuals.”
— Peter Senge

20. “Efficiency is doing better than what is already being done.”
— Peter F. Drucker

21. “In union there is strength.”
— Aesop

22. “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.”
— John Donne

23. “Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on their world.”
— John C. Maxwell

24. “Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.”
— Lou Holtz

25. “Confidence comes from being prepared.”
— John Wooden

26. “Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.”
— Stephen R. Covey

27. “No team works out teamwork.”
— Dwyane Wade

28. “The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”
— Bertrand Russell

29. “There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.”
— Pat Riley

30. “No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.”
— Denis Waitley

31. “A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”
— John Wooden

32. “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

33. “I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.”
— Ray Bradbury

34. “Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

35. “I don’t necessarily have to like my players and associates but as their leader, I must love them. Love is loyalty, love is teamwork, and love respects the dignity of the individual. This is the strength of any organization.”
— Vince Lombardi

36. “We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.”
— Jason Kidd

37. “I guess if a person didn’t quit when the going got tough, they wouldn’t have anything to regret for the rest of their life.”
— Lance Armstrong

38. “A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.”
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

39. “When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.”
— Jack Welch

40. “Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.”
— Yogi Berra

41. “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
— Linus Torvalds

42. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
— Helen Keller

43. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
— Henry Ford

44. “Teamwork makes the dream work.”
— John C. Maxwell

45. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
— Ryunosuke Satoro

46. “Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.”
— John C. Maxwell

47. “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”
— Steve Jobs

48. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
— Phil Jackson

49. “The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.”
— John C. Maxwell

50. “No individual can win a game by himself.”
— Pelé