Please find below a selection of team building & teamwork quotes from yesterday’s and today’s best leaders, coaches and top influences. We will be updating and adding new quotes regularly so be sure to bookmark this page so you can come back often to be inspired.
A team is a group of people with different abilities, talents, experience, and backgrounds who have come together for a shared purpose. Despite their individual differences, that common goal provides the thread that defines them as a team.
“Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.”
-Robert H. Schuller
“One thing is certain in Business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes”
Richard Branson
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“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader” – Dolly Parton
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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organisational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
– Andrew Carnegie
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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
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“Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different.”
– Indra Nooyi
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
– Bill Gates
“Civility doesn’t weaken a message. It helps others hear it.”
– Kate Nasser
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”
Chinese Proverb
Learn To Embrace Change – “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”
Charles Swindoll
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Henry Thomas Buckle
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“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
James Paolinetti
“Since in order to speak, one must first listen. Learn to speak by listening.”
Rumi
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
Les Brown
“I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”
Jack Welch
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“If you are not failing, you are not growing.”
H. Stanley Judd
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Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success
“When we are down in the valley’s, True leaders will emerge”
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
Winston Churchill
