45 Quotes That Celebrate Teamwork, Hard Work, and Collaboration

To inspire your team to band together and celebrate collaboration, we’ve gathered some of our favorite quotes on the power of teamwork. Flip through the following SlideShare, then check out the full list of inspirational quotes below — including some remarks about hard work to keep your collaborative juices flowing.

Teamwork Quotes to Inspire Collaboration

1. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller

2. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford 

3. “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

4. “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton

5. “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H.E. Luccock 

6. “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

7. “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

8. “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” – Henry Ford

9. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” – Michael Jordan

10. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson

11. “The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” – James Cash Penney

12. “Politeness is the poison of collaboration.” – Edwin Land

13. “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

14. “Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus.” – Simon Mainwaring 

15. “Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” – Patrick Lencioni 

16. “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 

17. “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

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

19. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” –Napolean Hill

20. “The whole is other than the sum of the parts.” – Kurt Koffka

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

22. “The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” – Lewis B. Ergen

23. “Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” – Vince Lombardi

24. “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 (Click to Tweet!)

25. “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

26. “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

27. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington

28. “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs

29. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro 

30. “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” – Virginia Burden

31. “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

32. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry Truman

33. “It takes two flints to make a fire.” – Louisa May Alcott

34. “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” – Iyanla Vanzant

35. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb

36. “Success is best when it’s shared.” – Howard Schultz

Hard Work Quotes to Inspire Determination

37. “Hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke

38. “We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” – Ariana Huffington

39. “When the ideas are coming, I don’t stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn’t come along all the time.” – Dr. Dre

40. “Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it’s a really good thing to remember.” – Ginni Rometty

41. “Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.” – Helena Rubinstein

42. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.” – Mahatma Gandhi

43. “I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson

44. “Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” – Malcolm Forbes

45. “The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.” – Vince Lombardi Jr.