Motivational Individual Quotes & Sayings

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

I know that compared to industries, corporations, and governments, an individual is insignificant. In measureable terms my actions hardly matter. But feeling tiny does not have to end at why bother. — Wendy Tremayne

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions. — Dan Miller

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted. — George Horne

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake. — John Wooden

If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you. — Carlos Delgado

Success for me hasn't been about individual success. It's about the success of all those young boys and girls who I have the honor of working with. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford. — Pallam Raju

There was a bounty on my head, it was four days before Christmas, and I was having turtle gumbo with a merman, an undead pirate king, two loups-garou, and my best friend - a human pregnant with the half-elven child who had unknowingly helped set this whole debacle in motion. Plus a newbie vampire who didn't like the smell of food anymore. — Suzanne Johnson

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. — John Gregory Brown

Armando's penis is a banana. — Hayden Wiseman

Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting ... Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun
he is your friend. — Roger Rosenblatt

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls. — Cy Twombly

Focusing on our individual steps can cure the paralysis and overwhelm, which sometimes occurs when staring into the future. — Charles F. Glassman

The outer is easier, and the outer is objective. For example, one man, Thomas Alva Edison, discovers electricity and the whole of humanity uses it; there is no need for everyone to discover it again and again. Inner growth is a totally different phenomenon. A Gautama Buddha may become enlightened, but that does not mean that everybody else becomes enlightened. Each individual has to find the truth for him or herself. — Rajneesh

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life. — Norman Cousins

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too. — Branch Rickey

The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified. — Stephen Covey

You are a soul. You are a creator. You are an individual, absolutely and positively one of a kind. You are an energetic being of love with enough power inside of you to change this entire world forever. — Stephen Lovegrove

The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual. — Tony Robbins

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters,
in all centuries and in all the arts. — Richard Wagner

Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous, and above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. — James A. Baldwin

We are not traveling alone, we cross paths with different people along the way. We may have an individual road to travel, but we cross paths with different people from time to time who would share different roles in our lives. These people may come and go, or even stay for a lifetime, but no matter what, they all came for a reason - to make this journey more meaningful. — Kcat Yarza

May we recognise the uniqueness of every individual and seek to complement each other. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. — Conrad Hilton

The term "musalman" refers to someone with "musallam iman", that means, a pure conscience. Thus, any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, who can think for himself or herself, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves the neighbor as much as his or her own family is a Christian. — Abhijit Naskar

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others. — Elbert Hubbard

The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits. — Bruce Lee

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees. — Edsger Dijkstra

No two stories are the same. They may seem the same at first glance, but, once you take a closer look, give the story some of your time, you realise its unique qualities. — S.A. Tawks

How do you compete with a ghost, Colton?" I whisper the question into a long silence.
He shrugs. "I don't know. You don't. You just understand that there's a part of you that you can't give away, because it belongs to a dead person. I don't know. — Jasinda Wilder

The direction we're heading is more important than individual results. — Tony Robbins

There is no need for false solidity when you are at peace with the universal expanse of your true Being. — Michael A. Singer

If you commit yourself to living according to His Word your potential will be unlocked, and in time, what may look small now will grow into something significant. — Christine Caine

You can't say you love man as an individual if you have not dealt with the person's complex personality, his or her unfamiliar habits, disturbing impulses and biological makeup. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid. — Robert Ringer

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. — Ann Landers

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home. — K. Hari Kumar

Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary - the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab.
It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.
So I said, call me Trimtab. — R. Buckminster Fuller