Quotes About Initiative

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

None of us—not you, not me—is here to stick a toe in the water. We're here to make waves.

From the beginning, I conceptualised Phenomenal Woman as a social-impact initiative. I knew that the campaign wasn't really about a cool T-shirt, but rather using the T-shirt to benefit and amplify a cause.

In fact, when I began selling 'Phenomenal Woman' T-shirts on International Women's Day last year, the campaign was supposed to run just through March, for Women's History Month. At the time, I hoped to sell around 500, maybe 1,000 T-shirts in total. We ended up selling 2,500 T-shirts on the first day alone.

I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge.

Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!

In my junior high and high school days, I would just pick up a mower and go mow the neighbor's grass and make an extra 30 bucks.

You can't really be picky and choosy for your first lead role.

When you get on the pitch, you've got to take your chance, and that's what I'm trying to do.

I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.

I wanna say to anybody that's trying to come up and go viral, push forward. Don't stop. Don't wait for nobody. Do it yourself. Ask for help, but don't wait for help.

If you wanna get out of a rut bad enough, it'll always happen. It's up to you, though. No one else is ever gonna do it for you.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.

If you want to do something, go for it -you've got nothing to lose.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

In Donald Trump, you have a candidate who knows the difference between wanting something done and making it happen.

I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything.

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.