111 Best Quotes About Working Together to Make a Difference

1. “Your main job in this world is to be your best self.” ― Rosalene Glickman

2. “Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.” ― Barbara Bush

3. “The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” ― George Santayana

4. “The best place to work is a place where you can be your best.” ― Rosalene Glickman

5. “As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we’ve been given.” ― Mary Lou Retton

6. “Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.” ― Bob Nelson 

7. “The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.” ― Harvey Mackay

8. “The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.” ― Jack Kemp 

9. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It’s the only thing.” ― Albert Schweitzer

10. “Excellence — moral, ethical, personal excellence — is worth whatever it costs.” ― Charles Swindoll

11. “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” ― Oscar Wilde

12. “Every day with you is an adventure I never wanted. Like swimming naked through shards of glass.” ― Brian Clevinger 

13. “Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.” ― Fred Allen

14. “In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.” ― Russell Hornsby

15. “Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.” ― Robert Reich 

16. “Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships.” ― Erik Paulsen

17. “A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.” ― Lars Peter Hansen

18. “My dearest colleagues seem to become metamorphosed into snarling beasts if I as much as glance at them, even if my glance is a complimentary one.” ― Harry Ellis Dickson

19. “Every situation – even a disaster – is an opportunity to be your best.” ― Rosalene Glickman

20. “Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.” ― James Allen

21. Always do your best. Don’t stop just because someone doesn’t give you credit.” ― Mary Rosen 

22. If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way.” ― Linda Ellerbee

23. “All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.” ― Seth Godin

24. “The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.” ― Hesiod

25. “Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.” ― Sam Walton

26. “Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.” ― Glen Mazzara

27. “If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.” ― Lawrence Welk 

28. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” ― Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

29. “When you have choices, choose the best. When you believe you have no choice, do your best.” ― Rosalene Glickman

30. “When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.” ― LeBron James

31. “Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist.” ― Robert Fisk

32. “Ideas are any man’s greatest asset.” ― Harvey Firestone

33. “Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances.” ― Rosalene Glickman 

34. “Do the best job and you’ll never have any competition.” ― Christopher Casey

35. “The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.” ― Elizabeth Dole

36. “Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.” ― Sheryl Sandberg

37. “We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.” ― Samuel Johnson

38. “An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.” ― Ambrose Bierce

39. “When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.” ― Shannon L. Alder  

40. “If you fulfill the wishes of your employees, the employees will fulfill your visions.” ― Amit Kalantri

41. “Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.” ― Deepak Chopra

42. “Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.” ― Peter F. Drucker

43. “When you discover and embrace your career purpose, you honor your soul’s calling.” ― Rosalene Glickman

44. “If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” ― John Cleese

45. “My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.” ― Eva Gabor

46. “I’m an incredibly hard worker, I’m incredibly tenacious, and I’m incredibly detail-oriented.” ― David Brock

47. “A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle

48. “To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.” ― Lao Tsu 

49. “If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting and whether or not we leaders agree.” ― Ernest Bevin

50. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

51. “My peers and colleagues inspire me.” ― Robin Chase

52. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” ― Stephen R. Covey

53. “When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.” ― James Sinegal

54. “I’ve never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.” ― Shawn Johnson

55. “Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.” ― Thomas Carlyle 

56. “You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.” ― Shannon L. Alder

57. “When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.” ― James Sinegal

58. “All workers want is a fair shake.” ― James P. Hoffa

59. “Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

60. “The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” ― George Santayana

61. “The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.” ― Clare Balding

62. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

63. “The most respectful attitude you can offer someone is your unconditional interest.” ― Rosalene Glickman

64. “If I were asked to give what I consider the most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ‘I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'” ― Ann Landers

65. “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” ― W. Somerset Maugham 

66. “Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.” ― Ricardo Semler

67. “In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.” ― Tony Lema

68. “When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.” ― Shannon L. Alder

69. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” ― Harvey Firestone

70. “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” ― Pablo Picasso

71. “At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.” ― Daniel Nathans

72. “Most employees don’t really want to be highly-paid; they just want to earn more than their peers, and, more importantly, more than their neighbours.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

73. “A part-time worker is fully employed, half the time. In other words, they are part-time unemployees.” ― Jarod Kintz

74. “People are more likely to remember the great social interaction they had with a colleague than the great meeting they both attended.” ― Ron Garan

75. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.” ― Walter Lippman 

76. “Choose the best, then put the issue to rest.” ― Rosalene Glickman

77. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” ― Alexander Graham Bell

78. “It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.” ― Warren Buffett

79. “Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.” ― George W. Romney

80. “Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.” ― Sam Walton

81. “We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.” ― Denis Diderot

82. “The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.” ― Clare Balding

83. “I strongly believe that the responsibility of leadership is to shape the debate — to practice and project the right attributes — whether in a business enterprise, in our society, and even in our religions.” ― Farooq Kathwari

84. “Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

85. “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

86. “To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” ― Pearl S. Buck

87. “By honoring feelings, thoughts, and motives, we establish our most rewarding connections.” ― Rosalene Glickman

88. “I don’t see any of my colleagues as rivals. I don’t think our generation needs to do that. We are a chilled out lot, and we should all be happy.” ― Shahid Kapoor

89. “Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.” ― Gresham Barrett

90. “An employee’s motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.” ― Bob Nelson 

91. “An employee who’s one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.” ― Gary Hamel

92. “A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.” ― Zig Ziglar

93. “I have a lot of acquaintances, a few are buddies.” ― Toba Beta

94. “I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can’t hide anything from them.” ― Ian Somerhalder

95. “We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.” ― Logan Pearsall Smith

96. “None of us is as smart as all of us.” ― Kenneth H. Blanchard

97. “If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.” ― Criss Jami

98. “Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.”― Amit Ray

99. “There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

100. “Team spirit promotes greater accomplishment.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita 

101. “Passive aggressive behavior is counter productive. Communication is key to a healthy personal and work relationship.” ― Izey Victoria Odiase

102. “The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.” ― John Bardeen

103. “Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.” ― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

104. “Teamwork makes the dream work.” ― Bang Gae

105. “A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others.” ― Norman Shidle 

106. “TEAMWORK: A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.” ― Justin Sewell

107. “Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” ― Virginia Burden

108. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ― Helen Keller

109. “The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.” ― James Cash Penney

110. “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” ― Harry S. Truman

111. “Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.” ― Chris Bradford