Motivating yourself to work with a team is always tricky. Here are some quotes by some of the best collaborators of all time to help you embrace your team. Not only are these quotes inspiring, they also contain some great advice. These tips might be something to reference when you’re having a bad day.
- “A leader must inspire or his team will expire.” – Orrin Woodward
- “It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. “ – Harry Truman
- “Trust your team. Let others do their work so you can concentrate wholly on your own.” – Gene King
- “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
- “The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon.
- “A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind.” – Bill Bethel
- “Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.” – Patrick Lencioni
- “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” – Sheryl Sandberg
- “None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard
- “Unity is strength…and when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” – Mattie Stepanek
- “Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.” – Stephen Hawking
- “The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson
- “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H. E. Luccock
- “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
- “Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” – Patrick Lencioni
- “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napoleon Hill
- “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
- “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
- “Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.” – Simon Mainwaring
- “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” – George Shinn
- “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
- “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – Afridan Proverb
- “Success is best when it’s shared.” – Howard Schultz
- “Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.” – Ginni Rometty
- “What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every component is there not for competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.” – W. Edwards Deming
- “You only win when you help others win.” – Paul Zane Pilzer
- “We are most effective as a team when we compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear.” – Unknown
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Unknown
- “Teams share the burden and divide the grief.” – Doug K. Smith
- “A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.” – Swahili Proverb
- “The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.” – Lou Holtz
- “The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.” – Mike Krzyzewski
- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Teamplayer: One who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.” – Dennis Kinlaw
- “No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “We must hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “In union there is strength.” – Aesop
- “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is a success.” – Henry Ford
- “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar
- “T.E.A.M. = Together Everyone Achieves More.” – Unknown
