Individual achievement Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““The more corrupt the community, the stronger the lure of individual achievement”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Individual achievement Success
“We live in a sad society. Succeed--that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. In passing, we might say… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This is about a very few very rich, very greedy individuals getting ever richer, at the expense of human misery and suffering throughout the… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“High achievement is often the result of being driven by toxic shame. Feeling flawed and defective on the inside, I had to prove I… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Just like small acts of kindness can pave the way for a better world, small acts of corruption open the road for a corrupt… — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
“Success is more than just power or not violating the rights of others; it is the privilege of contributing to the betterment of others.” — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
“We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Lies and corruption are the natural progression when communities are ruled by fear” — The Sullivan Brothers Copy Share Image
“Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Lift up the weak; inspire the ignorant... Rescue the failures; encourage the deprived! Live to give... Don't only hustle for survival. Go, and settle… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Many people become prosperous only to realize that Success is more Fulfillment than Achievement.” — RVM Copy Share Image
“Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.” — George Alexiou Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing. — Chili Davis Copy Share Image
I love the success of my teammates more than my individual achievements. I've just always cared more about that since I started playing. — LeBron James Copy Share Image
I dream of Poland becoming a modern society that is defined not by the crippling nature of history, but by our individual achievements, a… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
In these sacred documents are embodied eternal principles that no man, group of men, or nation has the right to withhold from others. Here… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody. — Scott Hamilton Copy Share Image
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement. — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate, — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image