List 30 Quotes About Team Work

Here’s a list of 30 Quotes About Team Work, sorted by categories, with additional details including the year, profession, and lifespan of the person:

From Entertainment and Actors:

  1. “Tough times don’t last, tough teams do.” – Rocky Balboa in Rocky Balboa (2006), Fictional Character
  2. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma (2014), Fictional Character based on Real Person (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
  3. “Talent wins games but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” – Michael Jordan in Space Jam (1996), Fictional Character based on Real Person (born February 17, 1963)
  4. “Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” – Lilo in Lilo & Stitch (2002), Fictional Character
  5. “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma (2014), Fictional Character based on Real Person (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)

From Scientists:

  1. “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” – Isaac Newton, Mathematician and Physicist (1642-1727)
  2. “The most important thing is to never stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein, Physicist (1879-1955)
  3. “Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.” – Ashley Montague, Anthropologist (1905-1999)
  4. “What you learn from a life in science is the vastness of our ignorance.” – David Eagleman, Neuroscientist (born April 25, 1971)
  5. “Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” – Wernher von Braun, Aerospace Engineer (1912-1977)
  6. “Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.” – Stephen Hawking, Theoretical Physicist and Cosmologist (1942-2018)

From Business Leaders and Spiritual Leaders:

  1. “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955-2011)
  2. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson, Basketball Coach (born September 17, 1945)
  3. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company (1863-1947)
  4. “The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.'” – Peter Drucker, Management Consultant (1909-2005)
  5. “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, Co-founder of LinkedIn (born August 5, 1967)
  6. “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, Roman Catholic Nun (1910-1997)
  7. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington, Educator and Civil Rights Leader (1856-1915)
  8. “The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.” – Gerhard Gschwandtner, Founder of Selling Power Magazine (born 1950)
  9. “On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.” – Lou Holtz, Football Coach and Analyst (born January 3, 1937)

From Literature and Authors:

  1. “Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one that they sprung up.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Physician and Author (1809-1894)
  2. “If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago, he would’ve thought they were birds or angels from another world.” – Dejan Stojanovic, Poet and Writer (born 1959)
  3. “It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin, Naturalist and Author (1809-1882)
  4. “Impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet.” – Anonymous
  5. “In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.” – Sir William Osler, Physician and Author (1849-1919)
  6. “Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.” – Ifeanyi Onuoha, Author (May 12, 1984 – Present)
  7. “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – Halford E. Luccock, Minister and Author (1885-1960)
  8. “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” – Matthew Woodring Stover, Author and Screenwriter (born 1962)
  9. “Alone we can do do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller, Author and Political Activist (1880-1968)
  10. “Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.” – John C. Maxwell, Author (February 20, 1947 – Present)

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