Teamwork is the reason why many jobs, whether at home or at work, are done quickly and efficiently. There is delegation of responsibility in teamwork. Every single member works well together and understands each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
Through dividing up tasks, it enables the most qualified people to work on the job thus produce high quality results. Since most companies specify the importance of teamwork in the workplace, success is much higher and the possibility of making mistakes is controlled.
It’s the same way at home because it allows every member of the family to take responsibility of their delegated tasks and encourages them to be better at it every day.
An organized team with the right amount of cooperation is more likely to perform well. The combined effort of the team is much better than working on a job as individuals. Even though the job is done as a team, it still benefits each member as soon as the task is fulfilled. Additionally, teamwork allows everyone to bond and get to know each other. It gives them the confidence to trust their teammates as well.
We want to inspire you to be a productive and an awesome team member by giving you a list of encouraging teamwork quotes. We hope you and your teammates find them useful for future tasks!
Teamwork Quotes
1. Unity is strength. When there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. – Mattie Stepanek
2. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. – Michael Jordan
3. Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests. – Patrick Lencioni
4. 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
5. Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork – all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur. – Darell Hammond
6. The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison. – James Cash Penney
7. We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together. – Victoria Osteen
8. Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another. – Simon Mainwaring
9. To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless. – Mike Krzyzewski
10. Teamwork is a strategic decision. – Patrick Lencioni
11. Whether we’re talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one’s weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help. – Patrick Lencioni
12. One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork. – Edward Abbey
13. When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed. – Russel Honore
14. We’ll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We’re going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that’s the future of leadership. – John T. Chambers
15. The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them. – Jean-Luc Godard
16. The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you’re going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life. – Carl Lewis
17. My role at Lockheed Martin puts me in contact with extraordinary leaders in many fields – from science and engineering to philanthropy and government. And since we also work closely with our nation’s armed forces, we tend to reflect a lot on leadership and how we can inspire successful teamwork, cooperation, and partnerships. – Marillyn Hewson
18. For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I’m convinced that ‘the right people’ are the ones who have three virtues in common – humility, hunger, and people smarts. – Patrick Lencioni
19. I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. – Jean-Francois Cope
20. Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. – Brian Tracy
21. You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail. – Emma Stone
22. I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character – teaches people about leadership and cooperation. – Mo Rocca
23. Teams share the burden and divide the grief. – Doug Smith
24. Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary. – Bruce Coslet
25. On this team, we’re all united in a common goal; to keep my job. – Lou Holtz
26. With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything. – Tahir Shah
27. We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly. – Bill Bradley
28. Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. – Kenyan Proverb
29. When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself. – Tibetan Proverb
30. When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. – Ethiopian Proverb
31. A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle. – Japanese Proverb
32. To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork. – Henry Samueli
33. No team works out teamwork. – Dwyane Wade
34. The Grateful Dead, they’re my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world. – Bill Walton
35. We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they’re adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business. – Randall L. Stephenson
36. I do believe in teamwork, and I think it’s very important, especially for a woman, because if you don’t have a good team, then you cannot step out if you need to. – Arundhati Bhattacharya
37. I’m going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don’t fly. They’re the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over – so it’s teamwork. – Alex Ferguson
38. We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity. – Akio Morita
39. I’ve always played sport, ever since I was little. I played volleyball and I believe sport teaches you a lot, such as teamwork, respect and discipline. – Gisele Bundchen
40. I enjoy being a singles guy. I enjoy commanding the stage with myself and an opponent. It’s a different process when you’re teammates. Especially with the way we work. We’re very unselfish with how we work together in so many different regards. Not just what you see as the final product of the match. Just strategizing, psychology, teamwork. – Roman Reigns
41. You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they are much less effective than a team where there is less native ability but a higher degree of teamwork and cohesion. – Stewart Butterfield
42. I’m not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork. – Guy Ritchie
43. As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth. – Maggie Hassan
44. The element of teamwork is perhaps underappreciated. – Stewart Butterfield
45. Young kids should probably not play tackle football. I know this intellectually, but emotionally, I’m conflicted. I love this sport. I grew up playing and adoring football. I love the brotherhood, teamwork, athletic grace that borders on superhuman, grit, pressure and, yes, contact. I love the contact. – Peter Berg
46. The era of roadside decisions, declarations have gone. My government’s decisions will be guided by teamwork and consultations. – Mwai Kibaki
47. Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn’t do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. – Vince Lombardi
48. As a former NCAA basketball player, many of the skills I now rely on as a leader took root on the basketball court: teamwork, integrity, and resilience are just some of the traits I’ve carried over into my professional game. – Cathy Engelbert
49. There’s a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams – like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics – teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge. – Bill Simmons
50. I’ve always valued and encouraged teamwork, and that collaborative spirit of we versus I is core to Intuit’s success. Innovation has been part of Intuit’s DNA for nearly 30 years. – Brad D. Smith
51. The thing I really love about film is there’s a really big sense of teamwork, and everyone has to do their job to the best of their ability to make the film work in the first place. – Sarah Snook
52. As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is… well… healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem. – Naveen Jain
53. It’s hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values. – Bob Ainsworth
54. I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams. – David Rabe
55. As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling. – Alexandra Adornetto
56. That whole concept of team and teamwork and team first – that’s how Israel, in my opinion, has survived in the Middle East. – Robert Kraft
57. The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork. – Igor Sikorsky
58. Road racing at the moment because it’s still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it’s just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing. – Mark-Paul Gosselaar
59. A lot of young players don’t really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
60. Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership. – Daley Thompson
61. We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it’s all about teamwork. – Bob McNair
62. What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they’ve left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it’s all about teamwork. – Joseph J. Lhota
63. Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist. – Allan Sloan
64. My work is all about adventure and teamwork in some of the most inhospitable jungles, mountains and deserts on the planet. If you aren’t able to look after yourself and each other, then people die. – Bear Grylls
65. The culture of undermining sends signals of disrespect. This approach not only saps motivation and undermines teamwork, it also lowers the motivation to work extra hours anticipating what can go wrong. – John Dickerson
66. In that portion of time where my parents were together, I got to see great love, great loyalty, and teamwork. – Kimberly Guilfoyle
67. I know when I have kids, when I’m older, I’m going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there’s really no ‘I’ in team. – Gregg Sulkin
68. Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago. – Ken Olsen
69. For running a country, teamwork is important, and the person at the helm has to enjoy teamwork. – Sharad Pawar
70. I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship. – Michelle Trachtenberg
71. Sport has taught me never to be jealous of someone or insecure if somebody is doing well. It’s taught me teamwork and the value of patience. Even If I lose, I know that I’ve actually not lost. – Ritika Singh
72. I’m definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there’s some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork. – Summer Glau
73. Journalists prize independence – not teamwork. – Ken Auletta
74. I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship. – Michelle Trachtenberg
75. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. – Helen Keller
76. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. – Henry Ford
77. Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
78. If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. – Isaac Newton
79. No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. – H.E. Luccock
80. Teamwork 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. – Andrew Carnegie
81. 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
82. Coming together is a beginning, staying together is a progress, and working together is a success. – Henry Ford
83. The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. – Phil Jackson
84. Politeness is the poison of collaboration. – Edwin Land
85. 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
86. Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus. – Simon Mainwaring
87. Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. – Patrick Lencioni
88. 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
89. 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
90. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. – Napolean Hill
91. The whole is other than the sum of the parts. – Kurt Koffka
92. A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution.
93. The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team. – Lewis B. Ergen
94. Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. – Vince Lombardi
95. 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
96. Keep 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. – Mark Twain
97. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. – Booker T. Washington
98. Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people. – Steve Jobs
99. Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. – Ryunosuke Satoro
100. Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. – Virginia Burden
101. 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
102. Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team. – Patrick Lencioni
103. There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals. – Idowu Koyenikan
104. On our own, we are marshmallows and dried spaghetti, but together we can become something bigger. – C.B. Cook
105. It takes two flints to make a fire. – Louisa May Alcott
106. We’re a team. It’s part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we’d never get anything done. – Jeramey Kraatz
107. In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images. – Adam S. McHugh
108. If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you. – Paul W. Bryant
109. You are either supporting the vision or supporting division. – Saji Ijiyemi
110. It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team. – Lailah Gifty Akita
111. No one made it to the top without the help from others. – Manuel Corazzari
112. Teamwork makes the dream work. – Bang Gae
113. A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind. – Bill Bethel
114. Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success. – Ted Sundquist
115. None of us is as smart as all of us. – Ken Blanchard
116. No individual can win a game by himself. – Pele
117. No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. – HE Luccock
118. Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results. – Ifeanyi Onuoha
119. Individual commitment to a group effort – that’s what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. – Vince Lombardi
120. So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. – Bahaullah
121. We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. – Ben Franklin
122. If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team. – Bud Wilkinson
123. People achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. – Dr. Allan Fromme
124. Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction. – Justin Sewell
125. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. – Stephen Covey
126. The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. – Margaret Carty
127. Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO. – Max McKeown
128. A leader must inspire or his team will expire. – Orrin Woodward
129. Bad attitudes will ruin your team. – Terry Bradshaw
130. The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. – John Wooden
131. When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back. – Michael Schumacher
