Collaborating and coming together can be even harder in remote work teams.
As well as adopting the right collaboration tools and perfecting your digital communication skills, it never hurts to take stock with some teamwork quotes to give you some ideas on how to build a winning team culture.
Here are my favorite teamwork quotes to help inspire you to collaborate:
1) “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
— Helen Keller
2) “Teamwork makes the dream work.”
— John C. Maxwell
3) “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
— Phil Jackson
4) “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”
— Henry Ford
5) “None of us is as smart as all of us.”
— Ken Blanchard
6) “Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.”
— Mattie Stepanek
7) “It takes two flints to make a fire.”
— Louisa May Alcott
8) “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.”
— Steve Jobs
9) “The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other.”
— Thomas Stallkamp
10) “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”
— Henry Ford
11) “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
— Ryunosuke Satoro
12) “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.”
— Babe Ruth
13) “All for one, and one for all.”
— Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
14) “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
— Harry S. Truman
15) “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
16) “When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.”
— Biz Stone
17) “We rise by lifting others.”
— Robert Ingersoll
18) “Many hands make light work.”
— John Heywood
19) “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
— Michael Jordan
20) “The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.”
— Margaret Carty
21) “With teamwork, we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input.”
— Ogwo David Emenike
22) “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.”
— Rensis Likert
23) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
— African Proverb
24) “Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.”
— Amy Poehler
25) “The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team.”
— Lewis B. Ergen
James Waite
Founder of Remoteopia, James has worked in remote roles for 6 years. After a stint in recruitment, he now works as a director of website strategy in tech.