Teamwork Quotes
For team building and more!
Teamwork Quotes
For team building and more!
Here are some of our favourite teamwork quotes. Ever tried to answer the question: why is teamwork important?
Sometimes a good quote can be just what is needed to sum up even the most eloquent of teamwork theories. In team building activities there are numerous ways you can use teamwork quotes.
For example, you may want to use a quote to help in a team briefing session, or as part of team training day. Or, you may simply use them to remind yourself of the virtues of teams. Think about some of the wisdom and challenges expressed in the following teamwork quotes.
The Strength of Teams
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Henry Ford
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds? R. Meredith Belbin
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others. Norman Shidle
When the Organisation Gets in the Way
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization. Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Teamwork Quotes For a Purpose
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. Andrew Carnegie
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More Unknown
Synergy!
Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people. Stephen Covey
None of us is as smart as all of us. Ken Blanchard
The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential…the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons. Max DePree
If I have seen further than others it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton
If you like our teamwork quotes you may want to read more about developing effective teams in our teamwork articles. You can also find a wide range of quotes on related themes for this site in our section on motivational quotes.
Ideas for team building
This is one of the articles in our teamwork series. But for some practical tips on teamwork theories, look at our great-value e-guides. 
If you want to put our teamwork concepts into action, you’ll find more information and a wealth of practical resources, in our colossal Team Building Bundle.
Containing 240 pages and 50 tools, these are the 8 key guides we recommend to help you do more than define teamwork, build it!
Why is Teamwork Important
Build a Better Team
The Problems with Teams
Team Health Check
Team Building Exercises
Leading with Style and Focus
What’s the Problem?
Making Better Decisions
