Teamwork has always been an essential aspect of successful companies. While it’s true that there are many different types of teams and many different people, one thing is for certain; whether you’re working as part of a sales team, an HR team, or an engineering team, the capability of maintaining a strong workforce is the thing that will separate great managers from the rest.
Teamwork is all about effort. It refers to a group of people who work together towards a common goal. It’s a collaborative effort made by individuals whose main objective is to complete a predefined task, in the most efficient way possible.
Project managers and team leaders constantly face the challenge to find ways to empower their teams and to facilitate and build a powerful teamwork environment, which is often one of the main things employees tend to look for in a company.
If you’re working on building up your team and helping them find their strength, you can inspire them through speech. Let’s take a look at some of the best quotes ever said to make your team feel inspired, motivated, and ready to collaborate:
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. "No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it." - H.E. Luccock
5. "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
6. "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
7. "Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." - Henry Ford
8. "The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." - Phil Jackson
9. "The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison." - James Cash Penney
10. "Politeness is the poison of collaboration." - Edwin Land
11. Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus." - Simon Mainwaring
12. "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
13. "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
14. "It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed." -Napoleon Hill
15. "The whole is other than the sum of the parts." - Kurt Koffka
16. "A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others." - Norman Shidle
17. "The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team." - Lewis B. Ergen
18. "Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." - Vince Lombardi
19. "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
20. "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
21. "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
22. "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington
23. "Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people." - Steve Jobs
24. "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." - Ryunosuke Satoro
25. “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
26. "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry Truman
27. "It takes two flints to make a fire." - Louisa May Alcott
28. "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb
29. "Success is best when it's shared." - Howard Schultz
30. "Hard work beats talent if talent doesn't work hard." - Tim Notke
31. "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
32. "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
33. "Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist. And I think it's a really good thing to remember." - Ginni Rometty
34. "Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit." - Helena Rubinstein
35. "Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment." - Mahatma Gandhi
36. "I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson
37. "Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs." - Malcolm Forbes
38. “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” - Michael Jordan
39. “Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” - Patrick Lencioni
40. “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” - Jean-Francois Cope
41. “None of us is as smart as all of us.” - Ken Blanchard
42. “Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other’s fund of collective intelligence.” - Mike Schmoker
43. “Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” - Mattie Stepanek
44. “To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” - Mike Krzyzewski
45. “Efficiency is doing better that what is already being done.” - Peter Drucker
46. “The value of achievement lies in the achieving.” - Albert Einstein
47. “You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.” - Seth Godin
48. “No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.” - Warren Buffett
49. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” - Tim Ferriss
50. “Bad attitudes will ruin your team.” - Terry Brandshaw
51. “Teamwork makes the dream work.” - John C. Maxwell
52. “A leader must inspire or his team will expire” - Orrin Woodward
53. “If you can laugh together, you can work together.” - Robert Orben
54. “Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.” - Becka Schoettle
55. “Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” - John Rockefeller
56. “When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.” - Biz Stone
57. “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” - Virginia Burden
58. “There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” - George Shinn
59. “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”- Isaac Newton
60. “The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” - Elbert Hubbard
61. “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.” - Iyanla Vanzant
62. “Never confuse movement with action.” - Ernest Hemingway
63. “It’s better to be alone than in bad company.” - George Washington
64. “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
65. “To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.” - John Adams
66. “We rise by lifting others” - Robert Ingersoll
67. “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” - Matthew Woodring Stover
68. “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity” -
69. “A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” - Rosalynn Carter
70. “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” - Abraham Lincoln
71. “Our destiny is not written for us, it’s written by us” - Barack Obama
72. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”- Harry S Truman
73. “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-Exupéry
74. “If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.” - Bear Bryant
75. “In union there is strength.” - Aesop
76. “When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.” - Tibetan Proverb
77. “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
78. “When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing.” - Bo Schembechler
79. “The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” - Margaret Carty
80. “In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.” - Mark Sanborn
81. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
82. “You are either supporting the vision or supporting division.” - Saji Ijiyemi
83. “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” - Ryūnosuke Satoro
84. “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” - Kenyan Proverb
85. “The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.” - Joseph Stilwell
86. “What separates the good players from a great player is that a great player is willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group.” - Karem Abdul-Jabbar
87. “Interdependent people combine their own effort with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.” - Stephen Covey
88. “Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.” - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
89. “The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.” - John Wooden
90. “A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken!” - Bonnie Edelstein
91. “Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.” - Mark Zuckerberg
92. “The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.“ - Lee Iacocca
93. “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.” - Unknown
94. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” - John Quincy Adams
95. “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” - Richard Branson
96. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” - Henry David Thoreau
97. “If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.” - Jeff Bezos
98. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” - David Bly
99. “There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” - Mark Twain
Teamwork can really steer a company toward success. And it seems now that with remote work getting more and more common each day, maintaining a highly motivated remote workforce is exceptionally important.
Luckily, collaborative gantt chart software such as Instagantt can really make a positive impact on you and your team. Our intuitive and easy-to-navigate interface will quickly help teammates stay connected, thanks to a variety of useful features such as inbox, comments, and task assignments.
Everyone will have visibility and clarity into who’s doing what and when at all times, and this is what will really help your team to build their own processes, workflows, projects, and to really commit to their everyday work with confidence and motivation.
