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Who doesn’t love a good quote? We certainly do, so we thought we’d compile a list of some great quotes on team building.  As we find more inspiration, we’ll continue to add them here.  But for now, here are 49 great quotes:

Andrew Carnegie – “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. “

Anonymous – “T.E.A.M = Together everyone achieves more.”

Anonymous – “Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

Anonymous – “The basic building block of good teambuilding is for a leader to promote the feeling that every human being is unique and adds value.”

Babe Ruth – “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 – “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.”

Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr. – “A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take.”

Benjamin Franklin – “We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

Brian Tracy – “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.”

Buchholz and Roth – “Wearing the same shirts doesn’t make a team.”

Casey Stengel – “It’s easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that’s the hard part.”

Casey Stengel – “What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.”

Dennis Kinlaw – “Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust.”

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

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

Homer – “Light is the task where many share the toil.”

J.J. Goldwag – “A bad habit is the result of repetition. Awareness is the key to break the cycle. First become aware of unwanted tendencies, then your awareness can help replace bad habits with good ones.”

J.J. Goldwag – “A positive attitude churns the ether, directs energy, and sets up a self fulfilling prophecy.”

J.J. Goldwag – “As important as what you do is the enthusiasm with which you do it.”

J.J. Goldwag – “Associate with those who have a positive, passionate outlook on life. Their energy is soaked up by those around them.”

J.J. Goldwag – Bad habits are your enemy. Starve them the fuel of repetition and they will begin to fade.

J.J. Goldwag – “Be aware of your thoughts – you can choose to focus them on the positive.”

J.J. Goldwag – “Communication is the windshield wiper in the rain storm of life.”

J.J. Goldwag – “Don’t allow emotions to dictate your reactions. Rise above them by becoming determined to remain calm during all circumstances.”

J.J. Goldwag – “Make a complete effort even if the odds seem to be against you; there is a direct correlation between your effort and the potential for the odds to turn in your favor.”

J.J. Goldwag – “Make yourself aware of what motivates the leaders of your organization.”

J.J. Goldwag – “Never do anything you wouldn’t want others to know about. Ask yourself if you would publicly defend your act. If not, don’t do it.”

J.J. Goldwag – “What distinguishes us from another is how well we have developed our goals and our actions toward making them reality.”

J.J. Goldwag – “What you get may be how you make a living, but it’s what you give that defines you.”

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

Lee Iacocca – A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues.

Margaret Mead – “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Mark Sanborn – In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.

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

Michael Jordan – “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”

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

Plautus – “No man is wise enough by himself.”

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

Stephen Covey – “Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.”

Swahili proverb – “A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.”

Swahili proverb – “It is amazing how much people get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.”

Unknown – “Teamwork divides the task and double the success.”

Unknown – “Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

Unknown – “Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.”

Unknown – “It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.”

Vince Lombardi – “Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.”

Vince Lombardi- “Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing – the result.”

Stephen Covey – “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”

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