Individual Achievement Quotes

#1. On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

Hu Shih

#2. Success was individual achievement; failure was a social problem.

Michael Lewis

#3. With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes.

Brian Ferneyhough

#4. The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

Eric Hoffer

#5. Marcus Buckingham has a keen sense of what it takes to excel, and he backs his insights with an impressive body of in-depth interviews and research. This is an important book for anybody who aspires to effective leadership, managing, or any kind of enduring individual achievement.

Richard M. Kovacevich

#6. A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#7. Fantasy football is actually an amazing American pastime, because it takes the ultimate team sport, NFL and football, and turns it into the quest for individual achievement.

Jeff Schaffer

#8. The starting point of all individual achievement is the adoption of a definite major purpose and a specific plan for its attainment. 22.

Napoleon Hill

#9. Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

Warren Farrell

#10. The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped.

Napoleon Hill

#11. I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

Michael Eisner

#12. In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.

Frederick Lenz

#13. The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.

Stephen Covey

#14. Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.

Reince Priebus

#15. The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

Salman Rushdie

#16. We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races
by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

Edward Abbey

#17. Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.

Charles M. Schwab

#18. Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

Harry Truman

#19. For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#20. Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

John Kline

#21. A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

#22. Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.

Peter Blair Henry

#23. Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

Thomas A. Edison

#24. Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual.
- Drizzt Do'Urden

R.A. Salvatore

#25. Enlightening, teaching, and perfecting women together with men on the national and individual level: this must be the secret for the achievement of every reasonable goal, as well as the establishment of any permanent social or political relationships.

Germaine De Stael

#26. I love the success of my teammates more than my individual achievements. I've just always cared more about that since I started playing.

LeBron James

#27. Even the greatest of painters cannot produce, however strenuously he exerts himself in pursuit of variety, more than 12 or 13 individual masterpieces. So it is natural that mankind should marvel at God's astonishing and singlehanded achievement in the production of people.

Soseki Natsume

#28. The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.

Leon Edel

#29. Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

Paul Ryan

#30. All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#31. The achievement of psychological maturity is an individual task-and so is increasingly difficult today when man's individuality is threatened by widespread conformity.

C. G. Jung

#32. The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.

Charles Spurgeon

#33. All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

W. Clement Stone

#34. Survival...could only be a social achievement, not an individual accident.

Eugene Weinstock

#35. It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.

Reid Hoffman

#36. The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#37. There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He'll be on his own, that's true, but while he will not have the security enjoyed by those who do conform, there will be no limits to what he may achieve.

J. Paul Getty

#38. Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

Buck Rodgers

#39. On a personal level, I don't have many individual achievements ...

Eddie Lacy

#40. All personal achievement starts within the mind of the individual-knowing your problem is the first step in finding the solution.

Napoleon Hill