Difference between revisions of "Team Building and Teamwork Quotes"
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|"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." | |"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." | ||
|Charles Darwin | |Charles Darwin | ||
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| + | |"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." | ||
| + | |Ryunosuke Satoro | ||
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| + | |"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." | ||
| + | |Isaac Newton | ||
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Revision as of 05:47, 13 October 2009
| Quote | Author |
|---|---|
| "In union there is strength." | Aesop |
| "Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all." | Alexander the Great |
| "All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people." | Alexis Carrel |
| "No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you." | Althea Gibson |
| "Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an 'I' in 'team.' It is the same 'I' that appears three times in 'responsibility.'" | Amber Harding |
| "Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." | Andrew Carnegie |
| "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 |
| "We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit." | Aristotle |
| "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link." | Author Unknown |
| "A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!" | Author Unknown |
| "It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone." | Author Unknown |
| "Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams." | Author Unknown |
| "Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder... [T]eamwork can be summed up in five short words: 'We believe in each other.'" | Author Unknown |
| "T.E.A.M. = Together Everyone Achieves More!" | Author Unknown |
| "Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust." | Author Unknown |
| "Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success." | Author Unknown |
| "Teamwork doesn't tolerate the inconvenience of distance." | Author Unknown |
| "Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." | Author Unknown |
| "Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we." | Author Unknown |
| "The basic building block of good teambuilding is for a leader to promote the feeling that every human being is unique and adds value." | Author Unknown |
| "We are most effective as a team when we compliment each other without embarrassment and disagree without fear." | Author Unknown |
| "No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything." | B. Dodge |
| "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 |
| "A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take." | Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr. |
| "We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately." | Benjamin Franklin |
| "Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it." | Bill Bradley |
| "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 |
| "Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team. | Buchholz and Roth |
| "Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. | Casey Stengel |
| "It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part." | Casey Stengel |
| "Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through sharing information and ideas, empowering others and developing trust." | Dennis Kinlaw |
| "You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. | Doug Floyd |
| "Teams share the burden and divide the grief. | Doug Smith |
| "People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them." | Dr. Allan Fromme |
| "It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you." | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| "No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it." | H.E. Luccock |
| "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." | Henry Ford |
| "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." | Henry Ford |
| "Light is the task where many share the toil." | Homer |
| "A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle." | Japanese proverb |
| "One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites." | Jin Kwon |
| "When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality." | Joe Paterno |
| "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent." | John Donne |
| "Many hands make light work." | John Heywood |
| "If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around." | John Wheeler |
| "One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team." | Kareem Abdul Jabbar |
| "None of us is as smart as all of us." | Ken Blanchard |
| "Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable." | Kenyan Proverb |
| "Teamwork is a make or break situation. Either you help make it or the lack of it will break you." | Kris A Hiatt |
| "A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues." | Lee Iacocca |
| "The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team." | Lewis B. Ergen |
| "The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side." | Margaret Carty |
| "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." | Margaret Mead |
| "If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough." | Mario Andretti |
| "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." | Mark Sanborn |
| "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." | Mark Twain |
| "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 |
| "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." | Michael Jordan |
| "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 |
| "In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first ahead of personal glory." | Paul Bear Bryant |
| "No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing." | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough." | Robert Crandall |
| "It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit." | Robert Yates |
| "Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success." | Stephen Covey |
| "A boat doesn't go forward if each one is rowing their own way." | Swahili proverb |
| "No man is wise enough by himself." | Titus Maccius Plautus |
| "Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity." | Vince Lombardi |
| "Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." | Vince Lombardi |
| "Teamwork is essential that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." | Vince Lombardi |
| "Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there." | Virginia Burden |
| "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." | W. Edward Deming |
| "Big thinking precedes great achievement." | Wilferd Peterson |
| "There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play." | William B. Given, Jr. |
| "If you can laugh together, you can work together" | Robert Orben |
| "It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together." | Lloyd Dobens |
| "Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." | Vince Lombardi |
| "In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." | Charles Darwin |
| "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." | Ryunosuke Satoro |
| "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." | Isaac Newton |
