90 Team Building Quotes to Help Your Team Achieve the Goal

Positive Team Building Quotes

Here are some positive team building quotes you can read to bring more positive energy to the team.

• “Teamwork makes the dream work.” – Bang Gae

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

• “None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard

• “Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.” – Roy T. Bennett

• “Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results.” – Becka Schoettle

• “Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” – John Rocke

• “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” – Peter F. Drucker

• “The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” – Margaret Carty

• “Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.” – Brian Tracy

• “Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.” – Ted Sundquist

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

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

• “He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.” – Confucius

• “Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.” – Bruce Coslet

• “Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.” – Ifeanyi Onuoha.

• “Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” – Sara Blakely

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

Inspirational Team Building Quotes

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Check some of these team building quotes you can use to inspire your team.

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

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

• “A successful team is a group of many hands and one mind.” – Bill Bethel

• “If you can laugh together, you can work together.” – Robert Orben

• “The value of achievement lies in the achieving.” – Albert Einstein

• “Tough times don’t last, tough people do.” ― Robert H. Schuller

• “Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team.” – Patrick Lencioni

• “Teams share the burden and divide the grief.” – Doug Smith

• “Teamwork. A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.” – Justin Sewell

• “In union there is strength.” – Aesop

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

• “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford

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

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

• “No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

• “The chain is only as strong as its weakest link, for if that fails the chain fails and the object that it has been holding up falls to the ground.” – Thomas Reid, Philosopher

• “After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration.” – Ron Garan, Astronaut

• “It’s very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It’s easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.” – Fred Rogers, Children’s Entertainer

Quotes for Team Building

Read these team building quotes to get some new insight about teamwork.

• “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs, Founder

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

• “The greatest danger a team faces isn’t that it won’t become successful, but that it will, and then cease to improve.” – Mark Sanborn, Author

• “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, Writer

• “Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” – John D Rockefeller, Industrialist

• “If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.” – Orson Scott Card, Author

• “United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.” – Aesop, Writer

• “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter, First Lady

• “To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” – Mike Krzyzewski, Basketball Coach

• “I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.” – Abby Wambach, Soccer Player

• “Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.” – Lance Armstrong, Tour de France Champion

• “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. – Michael Jordan, Basketball Legend

• “No individual can win a game by himself.” – Pelé, Soccer Star

• “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington, Educator & Activist

• “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

• “It’s better to have a great team than a team of greats.” – Simon Sinek, Author

• “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart, Author

• “The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” – Margaret Carty, Politician

Team Building Quotes Funny

Sometimes humor can link people together. Here are some funny team building quotes you need.

• “Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” – Malcolm Forbes, Media Mogul

• “If you can laugh together, you can work together.” – Robert Orben, Writer & Comedian

• “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, Author

• “It’s better to have a hole in your team than an a**hole in your team!” – Dan Jacobs, Executive

• “Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting on with people you can’t stand.” – Samuel Goldwyn, Film Producer

• “On our own, we are marshmallows and dried spaghetti, but together we can become something bigger.” – C.B. Cook, Author

• “If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.” – Darryl F. Zanuck, Film Producer

• “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

• "If our boss makes a mistake, it is our mistake. (TinyPulse)

• “Sure, there’s no "I" in team, but there is an ‘m’ and an "e’.” ― Kevin Myers

• "To err is human. To blame it on someone else shows management potential. (Humor That Works)

• "My boss says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We’ll see about that… (Humor That Works)

• “A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.” ― Michael Winner

• “One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothing that can beat teamwork.” ― Edward Abbey

• “We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.” ― Jason Kidd

• “No man is an island, entirely of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.” ― John Donne

• “Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.” ― Stephen Hawking

• “Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy – both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” ― Michael Scott

• “Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.” ― Brian Tracy

• “If work isn’t fun, you’re not playing on the right team.” ― Frank Sonnenberg

So, there are all 90 team building quotes that you need to read to build good teamwork in order to achieve something big together.