We are always stronger together, especially when it comes to working in a group. Which is why we have gathered all the best inspirational teamwork quotes to build motivation for you to share. And if you’re looking for short teamwork sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Inspirational Teamwork Quotes
“The reward for good work is more work.” – Francesca Elisia
“Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.” — Doug Larson
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiam.” – Winston Churchill
“Teamwork – A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.” — Larry Kersten
“If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn’t want me here either.” — James Johnson
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.” — Frederick Douglass
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.” — Drew Carey
“The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labour.” — Wernher von Braun
“Tough times don’t last, tough teams do.” — Robert Schuller
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” — Halford E.
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” — Henry Ford
Teamwork is essential – it allows you to blame someone else.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” — G.K. Neilson
“Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it’s pretty much all luck.” — Richard Jeni
“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.” — Claude McDonald
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, bring others.
“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.” — Leslie Nielsen
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” — Muhammad Ali
“A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.” — Michael Winner
“Why does winter feel like one big Tuesday?” — Todd Stocker
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” — Mark Twain
“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” — Earl Wilson
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
“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
“It takes two flints to make a fire.” — Louisa May Alcott
“I don’t want it good. I want it Tuesday.” — Jack L. Warner
“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” — Phyllis Diller
“If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.” — Woody Allen
“Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!” – Kate Summers
“Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.” — Lewis Grizzard
“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.” — Patrick Lencioni
I can’t. But we can.
“The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.” — Phil Jackson
“People who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.” — Elbert Hubbard
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” — Bertrand Russel
“Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.” — Vince Lambordi
“The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.” — Nancy Astor
“The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.” — Joseph Stilwell
“It’s finally Friday, I’m free again. I got my motor running for a wild weekend.” — George Jones
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Working together works.” — Dr. Rob Gilbert
“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.” — Andrew Young
“Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” — Iain Duncan Smith
“We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.” — Jason Kidd
“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.” — Patrick Lencioni
“Mondays are a lot like getting fat. They make you feel sad, sometimes angry and there is not much scope for liking either fat or Mondays for any reason.” — Garry Moll
“As I have gotten older and wiser I discovered that there are six things that I really loved about my job. Pay day, lunch time, quitting time, vacation time, holidays, and of course retirement.” — Tom Goins
“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” — Gordon B. Hinckley
“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.” — Quentin Crisp
“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.” — Lee Iacocca
“A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.” — Jay London
“Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers.” — Homer Simpson
“You think it’s dumb when someone says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but you stick one in there and you see how dumb that looks.” — Brendan Kiely
“No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early.” — Groucho Marx
“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” — Charles Lamb
Keep calm. Team work makes the dream work.
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” — George Carlin
“On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.” — Lou Holtz
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” — Benjamin Franklin
“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
“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
“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?” — J. Paul Getty
“It’s called “teamwork” but most of the time it’s everyone sitting around until one man does all the work.” — Thomas Wilbur
“Coming Together is the beginning. Staying Together is the development and working together is the key to success.” — Henry Ford
“On Wednesday they’re feelin’ fine again, And they’re workin’ like a dog and diggin’ in.” — Johnny Cash
“Everyday is Monday….till Friday.” — Viktor VolksPrater
“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
“Wednesday can only dream of becoming Thursday.” — Anthony T.
“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.” — Robert Frost
“On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.” — Lou Holtz
“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.’ – Woody Allen
“Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. ‘Get up early, work late – and strike oil.’” — Joey Adams
“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” — Steve Jobs
“The best weeks start on Monday.” — Nice Peter
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?” — Steve Jobs
“When people refer to ‘Back in the Day,’ it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.” — Dane Cook
“There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?” — Kin Hubbard
“Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.” — Pablo Picasso
“Sure, there’s no ‘i’ in team, but there is an ‘m’ and an ‘e’.” — Kevin Myers
“If at first you don’t succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.” — David Brent
“It can’t be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.” — George Weah
“Monday isn’t that bad to be honest, what makes it bad is living in it.” – Day
“Thrusday is the most dangerous day of the week.” – Marty Stern
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford
“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothing can beat teamwork.” — Edward Abbey
“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.” — George Burns
“So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends – but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more positive partnership.” — Julio Alexi Genao
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford
“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” — Thomas Sowell
“A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.” — Ralph Lauren
“Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.” — George Ade
“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.” – Don Herold
“I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” — Matthew Woodring Stover
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Ken Blanchard
“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.” — John Gotti
“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.” — Malcolm Gladwell
“A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.” — Fats Domino
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” — Aristotle
“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” — Mike Krzyzewski
“Remember, it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.” — Darrin Weinberg
“Work harder than you think you did yesterday.” — Alex Elle
“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” — Will Rogers
“Men die of boredom, psychological conflict and disease. They do not die of hard work.” — David Ogilvy
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” — Rita Mae Brown
“Men have never been individually self-sufficient.” — Reinhold Niebuhr
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” — Joe Girard
“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
“Right now, this is a job. If I advance any higher, this would be my career. And if this were my career, I’d have to throw myself in front of a train.” — The Office
Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.
“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
“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” — Jerome K. Jerome
“There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?” — Kin Hubbard
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” — Edgar Bergen
A single stick is easily broken, but bundle sticks together and they become unbreakable.
Before you reach the top of the ladder, make sure it’s leaning against the right wall.
“If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.” ― Noel Coward
“Thursday comes and the week’s gone.” — George Herbert
“No team works out teamwork.” — Dwyane Wade
“I don’t like Mondays, especially if they occur on Fridays.” — Jarod Kintz
“Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.” — Stephen Hawking
“I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and hook up with them later.” — Mitch Hedberg
“Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.” — Fran Lebowitz
“A single leaf working alone provides no shade.” — Chuck Shade
“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.” — John Wooden
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.” — John Donne
“I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” — Larry Bird
Work hard, have fun, no drama
“I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” — Bill Gates
“There is no point at which you can say, ‘Well, I’m successful now. I might as well take a nap.’” — Carrie Fisher
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” — Michael Jordan
“If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.” — Michelangelo
“Tuesday just called and wants to know what happened to Friday!” — Neil Leckman
“There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” — George Shinn
“Thursday is perhaps the worst day of the week. It’s nothing in itself; it just reminds you that the week has been going on too long” — Nicci French
“She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success, wrong by wrong.” — Mae West
Nobody is as smart as all of us together.
“There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can’t wait to go to work? And when you’re ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, ‘I can’t wait to go home?’” — Chuck Schumer
“The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What’s the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you’d get a pulse.” — Denise Miller
“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.” — Quentin Crisp
“If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.” — William Lyon Phelps
“Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.” — Dilbert
“Teachers call it copying. We call it ‘teamwork’.” — A Student
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller
“If you would like to know the value of money, try to borrow some.” — Benjamin Franklin
So that is it for our list of Teamwork Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one for you!
For more great ideas, check out our other lists of Short Teamwork Quotes, True Friendship Quotes, Farewell Messages for Coworkers and Daily Encouragement Quotes.
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Laynni Deir
I am Laynni Deir, writer and editor of Purely Lists. There are times when you are looking for inspiration or aren’t sure what to say and I am committed to providing lists of the best quotes, sayings, messages, puns or captions for any occasion. Whether you are looking for a positive quote, a message for a card, a fun saying for a letter board or caption for your next post or story, you will find the perfect option here.
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