Building A Team Quotes

• A list is only as strong as its weakest link.

  Donald Knuth

  Teamwork, Strong, Team Building

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• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Success, Teamwork

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.372, Penguin

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people 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-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne

  Teamwork, Men, Grieving

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• 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.

  Bear Bryant

  Teamwork, Motivational Sports, Player

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• No individual can win a game by himself.

  Pele

  Motivational, Teamwork, Winning

  Pele, Robert L. Fish (2013). “My Life and the Beautiful Game”, p.170, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Two heads are better than one.

  Unknown

  Teamwork, Educational, Kissing

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

  John Wooden

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group

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• The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.75, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• A leader must inspire or his team will expire.

  Orrin Woodward

  Teamwork, Leader, Inspire

  Twitter post from Jul 22, 2017

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• May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Teamwork, Travel, Home

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  If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Humility

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• So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Teamwork, Powerful, Light

  "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi (pp. 287-289), 1935.

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• He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

  Confucius

  Business, Volunteer, Team Building

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• 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 P. Wheeler III

  Teamwork, People, Team Building

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• 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

  Leadership, Teamwork, Dream

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• Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, Lying, Inspiration

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• You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Teamwork, Business

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Teamwork, Baseball

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• Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.

  Ted Sundquist

  Motivational, Teamwork, Block

  Ted Sundquist, Justin Spizman (2013). “Taking Your Team to the Top: How to Build and Manage Great Teams Like the Pros”, p.7, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Simple, People

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.83, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Inspirational, Success, Teamwork

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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