Whether you’re a manager at a Fortune 100 company or an entrepreneur, you need a great team to succeed.
This is a given fact, but most people take it for granted. So it’s important to keep reminding your team members of the importance of collaborative teamwork.
To help you out, I put together a list of team building quotes that help inspire your team to keep them motivated.
I divided the team building quotes into two categories.
The first is a list of 6 quotes that I personally found the most powerful. They’re the ones I thought were the most enlightening when I first read them.
The second is a list of 9 more traditional team building quotes. Those are the ones you’d typically find on motivational posters.
Here they are:
6 Powerful Team Building Quotes
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” – Benjamin Franklin
In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly.” – Mark Sanborn
The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.” – Lewis B. Ergen
A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind.” – Bill Bethel
There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn’t matter who gets the credit” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
9 Classical Team Building Quotes
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H.E. Luccock
None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken H. Blanchard
(T)ogether (E)veryone (A)chieves (M)ore” – Anonymous
A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way.” – Swahili proverb
Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.” – Anonymous
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson
Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.” – Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.” – Anonymous
A single leaf working alone provides no shade.” – Chuck Page
How to use those Team Building Quotes
Here are a few ways you can use those quotes:
- In a presentation: Use a quote on a slide during an opening statement of a staff meeting call to inspire your team
- In a breakroom: Print one or two of those team building quotes out in bold font and hang them in your office breakroom as a nice reminder
- During team conflicts: When you’re on a team call and things start to get contentious, you can interject with one of those quotes to remind the team about how important teamwork is (“Let’s take a step back and remember that <insert team building quote here>”)
- In your signature: If you enjoy placing generic quotes in your email signatures, then consider including one that motivates your team (you can even mix it up every once in a while)
I hope you found those team building quotes helpful.
Hassan
P.S. – If you liked this post, you might enjoy “Influencing Virtual Teams”
