Team Effort Quotes – To Motivate & Inspire Teamwork
Team effort happens when everyone works together, sharing ideas, resources and talents to accomplish a common goal.
When each member of the team contributes their own skills and expertise, it can lead to better decisions, more efficient processes and improved results.
The importance of effective team effort and collaboration in any team or group cannot be understated, yet sometimes teams require a little reminder of how and why this is better.
The following quotes help to articulate the benefits of a strong team effort and can serve as inspiring team reminders or mottos.
Quotes About Team Effort & Collaboration
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Helen Keller
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton
“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 individuality counts but teamwork dynamites.” Jin Kwon
“It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” Charles Darwin
“Never confuse movement with action.” Ernest Hemingway
“To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, “Your end of the boat is sinking.” Hugh Downs
“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” Virginia Burden
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” Henry Ford
“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
“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
“When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.” Biz Stone
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” Napolean Hill
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” Henry Ford
“Individual commitment to a group effort–that is what makes a teamwork, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” Vince Lombardi
“You 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.” Jim Stovall
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” H.E. Luccock
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” Booker T. Washington
“The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” James Cash Penney
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” Ken Blanchard
“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
“A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.” Norman Shidle
“The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” Iyanla Vanzant
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” Ryunosuke Satoro
“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” Steve Jobs
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” Phil Jackson
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