Individual Success Quotes

• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

  Margaret Mead

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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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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• 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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• Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Mistake, Inspiration

  Maxwell Maltz, Kelli M. Gary (1983). “PRINCIPLES CRE LVG”, Pocket

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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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• Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

  Conrad Hilton

  Life, Motivational, Encouragement

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• Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

  Pat Summitt

  Succeed, Individual, Myth

  Twitter post from May 28, 2012

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• Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Success, Business, Congratulations

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• The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

  Edmund Burke

  Success, Selfish, Men

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• By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of the individual, success in business is in itself almost a sign of spiritual grace, for it is a proof that a man has laboured faithfully in his vocation.

  R. H. Tawney

  Spiritual, Men, Self

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion and the Rise of Capitalism”, p.210, Verso Books

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• It makes common sense to be managed by results and it's freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny. I'm so passionate about this because I have seen how merit-based judgment has helped create individual successes and yield a better system for everyone.

  Maynard Webb

  Destiny, Yield, Common Sense

  "Meritocracy: World Cup Fever" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2010.

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• Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Sports, Retirement, Motivation

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• It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this ambition, this aspiration that moves men and women to bestir themselves to rise to higher and higher achievement. Individual success is to be won in most instances by studying and diagnosing the kind of rewards human hearts seek today and are likely to seek tomorrow.

  B. C. Forbes

  Moving, Heart, Ambition

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• Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Grief, Opportunity, Perception

  "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom". Book by B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans and Douglas Abrams, p.xv, 2006.

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• You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world, which is a lie. You tell them that conflict only exists only to be neatly resolved, and that everyone who is poor wants to be rich, and everyone who is ill wants to get better, and everyone who gets involved in crime comes to a bad end, and that love should be pure. You tell them that despite all this they are special, that the world revolves around them.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Lying, Special, Get Better

  Scarlett Thomas (2010). “Our Tragic Universe”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Responsibility, Destiny, Blessing

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