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
Proven Great Teamwork quotations
I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'.
They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
Great teams do not hold back with one another.
They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.
My model for business is The Beatles.
They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.
Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
One man cannot make a team.
The thing I received from Girl Scouts more than anything else was a sense of real teamwork and working for the community, helping others, and it was not competitive. I remember working as a group to achieve a goal or to help the community. There was a great sense of accomplishment in that.
The path to greatness is along with others.
It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.
Movies always fascinated me. They are an endless source of inspiration. There are countless images by great directors that made a profound impression on me, and I see film as a sublime example of teamwork.
The difference between success and failure is work.
...there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.
By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.
Confidence comes from being prepared.
Great teams work harder after a tough loss.
Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man.
His character determines the character of the organization.
True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee.
Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
I've always had a great interest in sports that embody the values of commitment, hard work and teamwork - all values I strongly believe in.