100 Quotations on Team Work

Quotations inspire they show the way they are distilled wisdom. Here is a collection of 100 quotations on Team work (arranged in no particular order), all collected from different sources in the internet. Wherever the right person to whom the quote is attributed is known to me, I have mentioned the same. The rest a testament to my ignorance I have mentioned as Unknown. In case you know whom it is from, do share it so that I can update this accordingly! 1. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. - Henry Ford 2. Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry. - On a poster 3. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. - Michael Jordan 4. TEAM T- Together E- Everyone A - Achieves M- More 5. When you score a goal, or hit a three, or get a touchdown, you dont do it for yourself, you do it for the team cause the name in the front of the shirt is more important than the one on the back. Unknown 6. 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 wont be worth a dime - Babe ruth 7. Every team needs a hero, every hero needs a team. Unknown 8. Finding each other is the beginning, staying together is the process, Working together is the success. - Maeagn Gunderson 9. Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. - Emma 10. The vision of the leader is the hope of the pack. Unknown 11. Getting good players is easy. Getting them to play together is the hard part. - Casey Stengel 12. None of us is as smart as all of us. - Ken Blanchard

13. 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 14. We're a team. One person struggles, we all struggle. One person triumphs, we all triumph. - Unknown

15. No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. - H. E. Luccock 16. There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others. Unknown 17. Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success. Unknown 18. 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 19. Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly IS an "I" in TEAM. It is the same "I" that appears 3 times in RESPONSIBILITY. - Amber Harding 20. There is no such thing as "one-man show" in a winning team. - Jose B. Cabajar 21. A team that sweats together sticks together - Unknown 22. On the field we are only as strong as we are together. - Coach Kool 23. It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone. - Unknown 24. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world, indeed, its the only thing that ever has - Unknown 25. You aren't a teammate unless you know you can trust each other with your lives Trevor Blackwell 26. The strength of the team is each individual member...the strength of each member is the team - Phil Jackson - Coaching Chicago Bulls 27. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. - Vince Lombardi 28. Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year at UNC 29. The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team. - Lewis B. Ergen

30. No individual can win a game by himself. Pele 31. A divided house neither knows the comfort of peace nor the warmth of love. Unknown 32. Sometimes you gotta take one for the team Unknown 33. It doesnt take strength to win, it takes the true heart of the team to win. - Emily voyles 34. If all I wanted to do was win, I'd find something I can play on my own. The real prize comes from the experience you get, and the time you spend learning to work well together with new friends. That is far more valuable than any gold medal or trophy I have ever seen. - Panthean 35. Teamwork doesn't tolerate the inconvenience of distance. - Unknown 36. Conflict is inevitable in a team ... in fact, to achieve synergistic solutions, a variety of ideas and approaches are needed. These are the ingredients for conflict. - Susan Gerke, IBM, Leadership Development 37. Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group. 38. Teamwork is well-blended peculiarities. - Jose B. Cabajar 39. There is no "I" in team, but if you rearrange the letters there is "meat". Unknown 40. Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results. - Becka Schoettle 41. One star on the field makes only for a spot light. All stars on the field makes only for competition between all players. A group of people knowing and supporting both each other's strengths and weaknesses on the field makes only for a team. Unknown 42. What sets us apart from everyone else is our ability to recognize that we are nothing without everyone else. - Linda Poindexter 43. You can call yourself a team not when you succeed, but when you think of each other before yourself, have fun and enjoy each others company - that is where you will find success - Stephanie U 44. Man has never achieved anything, but mankind has discovered the world. unknown 45. A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team. - Katzenbach & Smith

46. I can do it when it's not hard, but when it's hard I need teamwork as strong as a board Unknown 47. A house divided cannot stand for long. That goes for politicians and the rest of us. Willie D

48. The path to greatness is along with others. - Baltasar Gracion, Spanish Priest 49. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller 50. Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable. Chris Bradford, The Way of the Dragon 51. Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team. Patrick Lencioni 52. Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. Patrick Lencioni 53. It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board. Patrick Lencioni 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. The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. Rensis Likert 56. Team effort goes vain when individual effort is in the wrong direction. Ram Mohan 57. It takes two flints to make a fire. Louisa May Alcott 58. Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence. Mike Schmoker, Results 59. Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice. Douglas B. Reeves 60. Strategy is not really a solo sport even if youre the CEO. Max McKeown, The Strategy Book 61. If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton

62. When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own. Colin Powell 63. If you can laugh together, you can work together. Robert Orben 64. Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers. Pat Riley 65. I am a member of a 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 66. The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. Knute Rockne 67. 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 team work dynamites. Master Jin Kwon 68. I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. Golda Meir 69. Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. Stephen Covey 70. Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale. Vince Lombardi 71. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt 72. A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two. George Herbert 73. A job worth doing is worth doing together. Anonymous 74. A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service. David Ogilvy 75. Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable. Pat Riley 76. Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity. Vince Lombardi

77. Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion. Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson 78. 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 79. Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi 80. It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. Napoleon Hill 81. Light is the task where many share the toil. Homer 82. Many hands make light work. John Heywood 83. Members of groups that do not meet regularly together usually do not feel a strong sense of belonging and do not take ownership for the success of the group. Anonymous 84. Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position. Douglas Murray Mcgregor 85. No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. Denis Waitley 86. One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 87. Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together. Anonymous 88. Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. Vince Lombardi 89. When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion. Pat Riley 90. When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellency becomes a reality. Joe Paterno 91. When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself. Anonymous 92. When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. Ethiopian Proverb 93. 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

94. White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close. Anonymous 95. Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence. Anonymous 96. A group is a bunch of people in an elevator. A team is also a bunch of people in an elevator, but the elevator is broken! Bonnie Edelstein 97. A boat doesnt go forward if each one is rowing their own way. Swahili proverb 98. Wearing the same shirts doesnt make a team. - Buchholz and Roth 99. In teamwork, silence isnt golden, its deadly. Mark Sanborn 100. The greatest danger a team faces isnt that it wont become successful, but that it will, and then cease to improve. Mark Sanborn Which of these quotations inspired you the most? Do share your thoughts. In case you know of any other inspiring quotations that have not found a place here do share!

Article written by: Arun Rao, www.focusadventure.in

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