I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.

If you believe in practising generosity of spirit, at heart you believe in the power of an individual to make a difference and at heart you treat individuals with deep respect and want to see others flourish.

Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.

Playing as a team is more important than playing as individuals. That’s what makes a team successful.

Indeed, the key to all diplomacy was knowing when they were serious about their threats and when they were posturing. Nations were like individuals, requiring cultivation and the paying of respect.

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.

Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual: visions are the way to unfulfilled dreams in mankind.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help or guidance. There is strength in vulnerability.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Beware the dangers of unchecked government power.

Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.

Every individual in the church is free to think as he pleases.

Every convert is a son or daughter of God.

If Life Gets Too Hard To Stand, Kneel.

I remember the first time I had sex – I kept the receipt.

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Our modern coaching culture is not to put too much pressure on any one performance, to let an individual flourish over time.

Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in an institution?

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

I’m just a little bit sicker than the average individual I think.F

Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.

At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity.

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

The subordinate’s job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The correct assumption is that what individuals have learned by age twenty-one will begin to become obsolete five to ten years later and will have to be replaced-or at least refurbished-by new learning, new skills, new knowledge.

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Kill them with success and bury them with a big smile.

Work until your idols become your rivals.

As individuals, we can influence our own families. Our families can influence our communities and our communities can influence our nations.inc

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes.

The less we understand of what our forebears sought, the less we understand ourselves. And thus, we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Neitzsche called, ‘the spirit of gravity.

It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.

Be a person and respect others as persons.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

He cannot kick with his left foot, he cannot head a ball, he cannot tackle and he doesn’t score many goals. Apart from that, he’s all right.

We’re like two dogs in battle on their own; They fought all day but neither got the bone, There came a kite above them, nothing loth, And while they fought he took it from them both.

Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

I measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her fellow human beings.

Be bold in your caring, be bold in your dreaming and above all else, always do your best.

When I see individuals, I see their individual beauty.

This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole nation. The sole purpose of this army is to stand firmly with the Chinese people and to serve them whole-heartedly.

In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.

The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfil this role requires systematic propaganda.

No matter how good one individual is, it takes a whole team to win a championship.

Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.

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.

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

I need, sometimes, individuals to spark an idea so that I can take off running.