Quotes by Individual Effort Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. Andrew Carnegie individual-effort common-vision teamwork It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves Anna Garlin Spencer individual-effort care caring Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts. Bill Veeck individual-effort team games 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 individual-effort achievement might The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. David O. McKay individual-effort inspiration perfection 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 individual-effort building creativity The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime. Elizabeth Kostova individual-effort generations lifetime Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift. Ellen G. White individual-effort church people To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It is the self-reliant pioneer in every enterprise who beats the path along which American civilization has marched. Such individual effort is the glory of America. Franklin D. Roosevelt individual-effort self civilization It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend. Friedrich August von Hayek individual-effort freedom mean ..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because it is in most circumstances the most efficient method known but even more because it is the only method by which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority. Friedrich August von Hayek individual-effort arbitrary competition The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves. James A. Garfield individual-effort support education 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 individual-effort freedom motivational 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 individual-effort making-a-difference differences Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it. John Burns individual-effort poverty impossible I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well. John F. Kennedy individual-effort magic jobs Unions are for 'collective bargaining,' not individual bargaining. It follows that most of the achievements of a union, even if they were more impressive than the staunchest unionist claims, could offer the rational worker no incentive to join; his individual efforts would not have a noticeable effect on the outcome, and whether he supported the union or not he would still get the benefits of its achievements. Mancur Olson individual-effort benefits achievement Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort. Mahatma Gandhi individual-effort growth order Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively. Narendra Modi collective-effort individual-effort excellence It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to...the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility...and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future. Robert Kennedy individual-effort responsibility children 12»