Individual Achievement Quotes

• High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teacher

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Volleyball

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.217, McGraw Hill Professional

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• 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.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Football, Commitment

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• All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual.

  W. Clement Stone

  Achievement, Mind, Individual

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• The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Opportunity, Accomplishment, Achievement

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• A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.

  Kurt Lewin

  Time, Successful, Goal

  "Resolving social conflicts; selected papers on group dynamics" edited by Gertrude W. Lewin New York: Harper & Row, 1948, p. 133; as cited in "Schooling & Capitalism: A Sociological Reader" by Roger Dale, Madeleine MacDonald, Geoff Esland, (p. 111), 1976.

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• 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

  Attitude, Law Of Attraction, Goal

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

  Paul Ryan

  Successful, Achievement, Community

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• 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

  Motivational, Team, Climbing

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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

  Eddie Lacy

  Achievement, Levels, Individual

  "Talking to Our NFL Rookie of the Year Pick Eddie Lacy About Twitter and Getting Hit Very Hard". Interview with Esquire, www.esquire.com. January 27, 2014.

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• 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

  Country, Numbers, People

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• 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

  Achievement, Teammate, Individual

  "LeBron James and Coach Dru Joyce". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2009.

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• 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

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• 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

  Government, Achievement, Innovation

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• Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Games, Achievement

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• Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Intellectual, Deep Thought

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• 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

  Historical Knowledge, Self, Achievement

  Hu Shih (2013). “English Writings of Hu Shih: Literature and Society”, p.99, Springer Science & Business Media

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

  Michael Eisner

  Meaningful, Thinking, Achievement

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• A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.

  David Mamet

  Team, Men, Fields

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• 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

  Book, Achievement, Important

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

  Warren Farrell

  Sports, Team, Men

  "An Interview with Warren Farrell" by J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Imagination, Achievement, Soul

  "Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success".

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• In these sacred documents are embodied eternal principles that no man, group of men, or nation has the right to withhold from others. Here is our basis for freedom of individual achievement. Our Constitution with its Bill of Rights guarantees to all our people the greatest freedom ever enjoyed by the people of any great nation. This system guarantees freedom of individual enterprise, freedom to own property, freedom to start one's own business and to operate it according to one's own judgment so long as the enterprise is honorable.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Rights, Long

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• 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

  Wise, Spring, Selfish

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at San Diego Exposition in San Diego, California, October 2, 1935.

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