Quotes help highlight sometimes what is not always easy to communicate about Teamwork. Quotes are sometimes a useful way also approaching topics within the team that are fraught with conflict or emotion such as honesty, trust and living with mistakes.
When looking to use a quote around teamwork remember that the quote is only a way of starting the discussion and to be effective you need to allow for the opportunity of team discussion around the topic. Remember without team discussion and each individual being invited and provided with the opportunity to contribute there cannot be the full potential reached from the activity.
Below are some selected quotes focusing on teamwork:
Teamwork is the Basis of All Great Achievements. Quotes about this inspire everyone with solidarity (Source: Kim S)
- “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me?” – Brian Tracy
- “Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group” – Max DePree
- “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home” – Trenton Lee Stewart
- “Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience” – Jack Vance
- “Not in numbers but in unity that our great strength lies” – Thomas Paine
- “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want” – Zig – Ziglar
- “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent” – John Donne
- “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team” – Phil Jackson
- “Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching” – Unknown
- “Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result” – Ifeanyyi Enoch Onuoha
- “It takes two flints to make a fire” – Louisa May Alcott
- “A willing helper does not wait until he is asked” – Danish Proverb
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value” – Albert Einstein
- “You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself” – Seth Godin
- “Three things you cannot recover in life: the WORD after it’s said, the MOMENT after it’s missed and the TIME after it’s gone. Be Careful!” – Unknown
- “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants” – Isaac Newton
- “The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team” – Lewis B. Ergen
- “Many of us are more capable than some of us . . . but none of us is as capable as all of us!!” – Tom Wilson
- “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit” – Conrad Hilton
- “Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love” – Miguel Angel Ruiz
- “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success” – Henry Ford
- “It doesn’t take strength to win, it takes the true heart of the team to win” – Emily Voyles
- “Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success” – Unknown
- “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up” – Mark Twain
- “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable” – Kenyan Proverb
