Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Andrew Jackson

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel Smiles

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
Samuel Smiles

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

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Denis Waitley

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Marquis de Sade

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Eric Hoffer

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
Mary Wollstonecraft

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J. Paul Getty

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
e. e. cummings

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.
Jean Piaget

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Jean Piaget

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
Hippocrates

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
Alfred Adler