People working as a team to accomplish a common goal is what teamwork entails similar to what Robert Murphy said “Every genius has a team behind them. People can create useful and practical solutions when they make use of each other’s abilities and knowledge.”
Although collaboration with others is an essential skill for success in life, team building entails much more. It involves building relationships based on mutual respect and understanding, boosting productivity, learning acceptance, resolving problems, and, most importantly, fostering a learning environment and creativity.
In this post, we share some team-building quotes to motivate you to learn team-building and boost your productivity to work with the team.
Team Building quotes to help individuals get motivated and work in a symphony
From activities to games, there are a dozen of methods to help individuals realize the importance of team building. However, quotes are known to provide us with wisdom. So, here we have some inspirational quotes for you on team building and teamwork to inspire you!
1. Great things at work are never done in person. They are done by a team of people. – Steve jobs
2. The word “team” stands for “together everyone achieves more”. – unknown
3. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. – Henry Ford
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. Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.– Helen Keller
7. The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson.
8. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. –unknown
9. There is no such thing as a “self-made man.” “You will reach your goals only with the help of others.” – George Shinn
10. Success is best when it’s shared.” Howard Schultz
11. You want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. –unknown
12. Successful teams are not formed by chance; they are created, not born. –unknown
13. A single leaf working alone provides no shading. –unknown
14. Teamwork divides the task and multiplies success. – unknown
15. 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
16. Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team.” — Brian Tracy
17. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napolean Hill
18. “A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality “-Johncarmack
19. “Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us.” – Tom Wilson
20. “Many hands make light work.” –John Heywood
21.”The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” – Lewis B. Ergen
22. “Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do.” — Robert Schuller
23. “If you can laugh together, you can work together.” — Robert Orben
24. “Teams are incredible things. No task is too great, no accomplishment too grand, no dream too far-fetched for a team. It takes teamwork to make the dream work.” — John Maxwell
25. “A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.” – Swahili Proverb
26. “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
27.”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
28. “Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.” — Amit Ray
29. “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
30. “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” – Matthew Woodring Stover
31.” Not Finance. Not Strategy. Not Technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare” – Patrick Lencioni
32.” A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.” – Barbara Glacel
33. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
34.”To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority.” – Christine Caine
35. “Players focus on the wins and the losses. Builders focus on the team and the future of the vision. Let’s move our members from team players to team builders.” ― Janna Cachola
36. “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
37. “When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.” — Marissa Mayer
38.”People achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.” – Dr Allan Fromme
39.”Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder… Teamwork can be summed up in five short words: We believe in each other.” – Unknown
40.”The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”~ Theodore Roosevelt
41. “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” –James Cash Penney
42.”When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.”- Russel Honore
43.” When we learn how to work together versus each other things might start getting better.” –unknown
44.” Remember, the conduct of each depends on the fate of all.”- Alexander the Great
45. “Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.” – Emily Kimbrough
46.”Be fast, be first, but never be alone. Nothing can replace the value of teamwork.” – Farshad Asl
47. “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” – Kenyan Proverb
48.”An army is greater than a warrior. “- Unknown
49.”Successful people build each other up. They motivate, inspire and push each other”- unknown
50.”None of us is smart as all of us together”- Ken Blanchard
Team building: A motivational process of evolving into a cohesive unit?
Team building and teamwork, whether for children or adults, encourage coordination and trust in one another in order to win the game. It inspires us to accomplish the seemingly impossible with the assistance of others. It teaches us self-confidence, how to communicate with others, and how to listen to, understand, and accept each other’s flaws in order to work together for the better.
Working together with a positive group of people, we learn new perspectives and skills.
The value of team building is that it enhances work efficiency for both individuals and groups. People can learn new abilities and hone their existing ones when they work in teams. As a result, teams perform better, become more efficient, and over time, more work gets done in less time. The most positive aspect of team building is the strengthening of personal connections. When people collaborate, they share their successes as well as their failures and experiences.
Conclusion
As humans, we have always evolved by working together. Teamwork can make all great accomplishments and successes possible. This post aims to inspire you to learn the importance of team building as shared by some like-minded people who have experienced it and attained success in life. We hope you get motivated by these quotes to work better and more efficiently in your team!
An engineer, Maths expert, Online Tutor and animal rights activist. In more than 5+ years of my online teaching experience, I closely worked with many students struggling with dyscalculia and dyslexia. With the years passing, I learned that not much effort being put into the awareness of this learning disorder. Students with dyscalculia often misunderstood for having just a simple math fear. This is still an underresearched and understudied subject. I am also the founder of Smartynote -‘The notepad app for dyslexia’,