Teamwork Quotes: Funny and Original Team Building Quotes

Team building quotes are a great way to bring all of your colleagues together. Funny teamwork quotes can help motivate and bring positivity to your team.The use of teamwork quotes in a morning meeting can provide everyone with food for thought as they head into their work day, and also remind them that their efforts as individuals are working towards a common goal.

Some benefits to using teamwork or team building quotes are that they can help to boost morale, it’s also a creative task that you can allocate to each team member on different days of the week! At Clinked we nominate a leader for our daily standups as a captain, and that captain is tasked with running the meeting but also finding a quote they find inspiring to share with the team. This starts the week off positively since all teams need a little bit of motivation once in a while, especially on a Monday! 

To help other ‘team captains’ looking for some funny teamwork quotes, we’ve compiled a list of funny, inspiring and morale boosting quotes that we love and that you can share with your staff and colleagues. There’s even scientific proof as to why quotes can motivate us – here’s our favourite inspirational quotes to fire your team up: 

Inspiring Teamwork Quotes

• “Tough times don’t last, tough teams do” – Robert Schuller
• “No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.” – Reid Hoffman
• “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
• “It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Charles Darwin
• “You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.” – Jim Stovall

Funny Teamwork Quotes

• “No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – Halford E. 
• “If you take out the team in teamwork, it’s just work. Now who wants that?” – Matthew Woodring Stover
• “On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.” – Lou Holtz
• “You think it’s dumb when someone says there’s no ‘I’ in team, but you stick one in there and you see how dumb that looks.” – Brendan Kiely
• “Teamwork means never having to take all the blame yourself.” – Stephen Hawking

Morale Boosting Teamwork Quotes

• “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” – Steve Jobs
• “None of us are as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard
• “The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson
• “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford 
• “Talent wins games but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” – Michael Jordan

Hopefully these famous team building quotes resonate with you and inspire you to keep working well as a team and building each other up. Don’t forget to share them with your own colleagues to brighten up their day and keep each other motivated. 

If you are looking for a platform that will help you with your teamwork and collaboration, Clinked’s client portal can help boost productivity and make your files easy to store and access. Our friendly client success team is here to help you and can get you started with a demo of the portal.