Team Building Quotes - Page 8

• The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals.

  Rensis Likert

  Loyalty, Teamwork, Motivation

  Rensis Likert (1967). “The human organization: its management and value”, McGraw Hill

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• 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

  Teamwork, Together We Can, Great Love

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• Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teamwork, Honesty, Integrity

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• Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.

  William Schutz

  Teamwork, Team Work, Collaboration

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• Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Business, Inspirational Football

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

  Henry Ford

  Teamwork, Men, Mind

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• A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Teamwork, Pride, Self

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• Men have never been individually self-sufficient.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Teamwork, Men, Self

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.456, Library of America

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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

  Teamwork, Real, Optimistic

  "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

  Teamwork, Player, Together

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• Teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed

  Russel Honore

  Teamwork, Culture, Inspirational Team

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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, Teamwork, Sports

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

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• If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

  Darryl F. Zanuck

  Teamwork, Time, Jobs

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• A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

  Chuck Page

  Teamwork, Team Work, Working Alone

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• Teams are successful when they are focused, have a short cycle time, and are supported by the executives.

  Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.

  Teamwork, Educational, Successful

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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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• Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them.

  Pat Summitt

  Teamwork, Doe, Faces

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.123, Crown Business

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• To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost.

  Pat Summitt

  Teamwork, Cost, Rewards

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.131, Crown Business

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• The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.

  Lou Holtz

  Team, Responsibility, Want

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• Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of your effort.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Difficult Situations, Practice

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• We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.

  Bill McCartney

  Team, Building

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• Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Responsibility, Hands

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• I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

  Balthazar Getty

  Baseball, Team, Stuff

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• Ideally, the star will be replaced within eight hours. This sends the message that no single individual is bigger than the company.

  Jack Welch

  Stars, Team, Eight

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• The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

  Lawrence Klein

  Team, Order, United States

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