Individual Effort Quotes

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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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 strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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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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• I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

  Narendra Modi

  Collective Effort, Excellence, India

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Teamwork, Common Vision, Team Building

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

  Babe Ruth

  Teamwork, Business, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Sacrifice

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

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• People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Football

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• 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

  Achievement, Might, Done

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• A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

  Joe Paterno

  Teamwork, Confidence, Reality

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• One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!

  Jane Goodall

  Differences, Making A Difference, World

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• Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

  Bill Veeck

  Team, Games, Definitions

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• Words like "freedom," "justice," "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

  Motivational, Freedom, Knowing

  "The Crusade of Indignation" by James A. Baldwin in "The Nation" (New York, July 7, 1956); later quoted in James A. Baldwin "The Price of the Ticket", 1985.

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• Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.

  Walter E. Williams

  Successful, Winning, Men

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• The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement against his big brother, began to change his point of view. He no longer hoped to right all things by his individual efforts. He turned to the law, to the government, to the state.

  Walter Weyl

  Brother, Government, Moral Judgement

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• Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

  John Burns

  Poverty, Impossible, Problem

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• There is only one way a boy can be sure to learn to play hockey - on the pond, on the creek, on a flooded lot. The foundation of hockey isn't really hockey at all. It's shinny, a wild melee of kids batting a puck around, with no rules, no organization - nothing but individual effort to grab and hold the puck.

  Lester Patrick

  Kids, Hockey, Boys

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• A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Men, Player

  Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

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• We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity.

  Douglas Cardinal

  Creativity, Building, Should

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