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Inspiring Team Quotes To Bring Out Your Best

April 3, 2023

These inspiring team quotes can help you achieve goals that might be impossible for you to imagine doing in isolation. Whether it’s in sports, science, or everyday life, teamwork is what helps you achieve success and simplify life.

As an individual, you will notice significant improvements in yourself when you work as part of a team that is focused on a specific goal. Some of the biggest discoveries and achievements in history are a result of teamwork. Even the greatest achievers have been successful because they had a team working alongside them.

Motivational insights have the power to instill the spirit of camaraderie in anyone’s heart. Read them and share them with friends, colleagues, and teammates. Teamwork makes the dream work.

You may also enjoy our Ted Lasso quotes and our Never Give Up sayings.

Table of Contents

  • Quotes About Team
  • Best Team Quotes
  • Funny Team Quotes
  • Espirit de Corps Quotations
  • Motivational Insights on Teams
  • Inspirational Teamwork Quotes

Quotes About Team

1.) Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s funds of collective intelligence.
Mike Schmoker

2.) Definition of a great teammate: a person who makes their teammates look great.
Emily Kohibus

3.) I am a member of the team, and I rely on the team; I defer to it and sacrifice for it because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm

4.) My teammates, they put me on their backs, and they wouldn’t let me down.
Jerome Bettis

Inspirational team quotes for sports.

Best Team Quotes

5.) Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie

6.) We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.
Bill Bradley

7.) The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
Kobe Bryant

8.) Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.
Patrick Lencioni

9.) Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.
Ted Sundquist

10.) I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
Jean-Francois Cope

11.) Unity is strength. When there are teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek

12.) If I miss anything about the sport, it’s the camaraderie of teammates.
Bo Jackson – Check out Bo Jackson on Twitter

Importance of team sayings.

Best Teamwork Quotes

13.) If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford

14.) Encourage your people to be committed to a project rather than just be involved in it.
Richard Pratt

15.) Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.
David McNally

16.) The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work.
Jim Collins

17.) With an enthusiastic team, you can achieve almost anything.
Tahir Shah

I can't but we can quotation.

Funny Team Quotes

18.) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard

19.) Teamwork is essential – it allows you to blame someone else.
Unknown

20.) Individuals can and do make a difference, but it takes a team to really mess things up.
Unknown

Espirit de Corps Quotations

21.) No individual can win a game by himself.
Pele

22.) Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is a success.
Henry Ford

23.) Most achievements in science are to a certain degree of a group effort.
Willard Libby

24.) Both group effort and individual testimony flow from conviction as to the role of people on earth.
Gilbert F. White

25.) The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi

Synergy Sayings

26.) Team spirit elevates with a broad-based contribution to the group effort. It’s especially important for the high-performing leader to avoid the situation of one or two people being the only contributors during a meeting.
Andrew J. Dubrin

27.) It’s been such a group effort. When you’re a new band, and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that’s great.
Balthazar Getty

28.) The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, the theater is necessarily a group effort.
Laurence Sterne

29.) When you work in TV, it’s such a group effort; it’s not about you.
Kylie Minogue

30.) When we have the confidence that we can orchestrate the group effort required to realize them, we dare bigger dreams.
Justin Rosenstein

31.) I think even if you’re on a screen or you’re in a play, it’s always a group effort. It’s not just the actors; it’s the editor.
Stockard Channing

Inspiring team quotes.

Collaboration Makes All The Difference

32.) The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson

33.) Ask not what your teammates can do for you but what you can do for your teammates.
Magic Johnson

34.) I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down.
Mia Hamm

35.) I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.
Brian Griese

36.) I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
Wayne Gretzky

37.) Being there every week for my teammates is really important to me. It’s about accountability.
Peyton Manning

Micheal Jordan Team Quotes

38.) Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.
Michael Jordan

39.) Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan

40.) If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves.
Michael Jordan

Motivational Insights on Teams

41.) The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson

42.) Teams are incredible things. No task is too great, no accomplishment too grand, no dream too far-fetched for a team. It takes teamwork to make the dream work.
John Maxwell

43.) Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi

44.) The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
Margaret Carty

45.) None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard

46.) If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African Proverb

47.) Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
Pat Riley

49.) The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
John Wooden

Motivational Team Quotes

50.) There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
George Shinn

51.) 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

52.) 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

53.) 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

54.) Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.
Patrick Lencioni

55.) 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

56.) The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.
Vince Lombardi, Jr.

Inspirational Teamwork Quotes

57.) No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy is, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.
Reid Hoffman

58.) Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs

59.) Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life forever.
Amy Poehler

60.) The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team. 
Lewis B. Ergen

61.) The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison. 
James Cash Penny

62.) Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

63.) When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.
Biz Stone

Short Teamwork Quotes

64.) Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
Kenyan Proverb

65.) If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Isaac Newton

66.) In teamwork, silence isn’t golden; it’s deadly.
Mark Sanborn

67.) It takes two flints to make a fire.
Louisa May Alcott

68.) Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
Virginia Burden

69.) Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Edwin Land

70.) Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. 
Ryunosuke Satoro, Japanese author.

71.) No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
Halford E. Luccock

Teamwork Quotes to Inspire

72.) Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

73.) The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.
Iyanla Vanzant

74.) I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

75.) Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you’re the CEO.
Max McKeown

76.) 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

77.) Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
James Cash Penney

78.) A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.
Norman Shidle

79.) A single leaf working alone provides no shade.
Chuck Page

80.) There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.
Idowu Koyenikan

Team Collaboration Quotes

81.) To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Mike Krzyzewski

82.) No problem is insurmountable; with a little courage, teamwork, and determination, a can overcome anything.
Unknown

83.) Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.
Simon Mainwaring

84.) Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results. 
Becka Schoettle

85.) Why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust, and trust builds speed.
Russel Honore, Retired US Army lieutenant

86.) Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.
Chris Bradford

87.) The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Lee Iacocca

88.) Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcolm Forbes

89.) Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John Rockefeller

90.) The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.
Bill Russell

91.) 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.
Pele

Unity Sayings

92.) I’m lucky to be part of a team who helps to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.
Lionel Messi

93.) Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.
Bill Walton

94.) The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth

95.) The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm

96.) The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.
Pat Riley

97.) Football is an honest game. It’s true to life. It’s a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.
Joe Namath

98.) Anyone can support a team that is winning – it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
Bart Starr

Unselfishness

99.) Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute.
Bill Russell

100.) To me, football is so much about mental toughness; it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win, and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.
Tom Brady

101.) In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game because a team will always beat an individual.
Bill Walton

102.) I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child, you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.
Wayne Gretzky

By Mike O’Halloran

Mike is the author of 3 basketball books and publisher of Sports Feel Good Stories.

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