Teamwork Quotes - Page 3

• Overcoming barriers to performance is how groups become teams.

  John Katzenbach

  Educational, Team Building, Team Work

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• I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

  Paul McCartney

  Real, Optimistic, Church Choir

  "John Rutter: The Art Of The Christmas Carol". Interview with Andrea Seabrook, www.npr.org. December 20, 2008.

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• It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

  Casey Stengel

  Player, Team Building, Together

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• I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

  Mia Hamm

  Volleyball, Cheerleading, Best Sports

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• Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Effort, Team Building

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.57, Mango Media Inc.

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• Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

  Stephen Covey

  Lying, Inspiration, Differences

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• It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  People, Team Building, Team Work

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• Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

  Tony Adams

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Kids, Thinking

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• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

  George Herbert

  Dwarves, Two, Giants

  "The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall".

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• People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.

  Allan Fromme

  Hockey, People, Team Building

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• If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Success, Sports, Player

  Bud Wilkinson (1993). “Football: Winning Offense”, p.13, Sports Illustrated

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

  Babe Ruth

  Business, Play, Individual Effort

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Flower, People, Diversity

  Face of Violence (1954) ch. 6

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• Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

  Georges Bernanos

  Peace, Flower, Clouds

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• Light is the task where many share the toil.

  Homer

  Light, Team Building, Toil

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• It takes two flints to make a fire.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1029, e-artnow

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• Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Baseball, Player

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• Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

  Meredith Belbin

  Mind, Team Building, Working Together

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• Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

  Stephen Covey

  Emotional, Differences, People

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• It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Important, Disagree

  Pete Seeger (2013). “The Pete Seeger Reader”, p.237, Oxford University Press

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• When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

  Pat Riley

  Effort, Decision, Collaboration

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• There is no i in team, but there is no team without individuals.

  Hannah

  Team, Individual, There Is No I In Team

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• The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.

  Bruce Coslet

  Player, Giving, Team Work

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