Quotes About Initiative

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

If we really want something done, it is best to do it ourselves.

It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be loving. That power and initiative comes from him.

[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

I'm going to create my own opportunities. If I can't find the roles I want, I'll just make them.

We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

Entrepreneurship is the freedom to do what you want, when you want, how you want.

Therefore let us not suppose that men can put themselves forward on their own initiative, for no man can know how to speak one word to the glory of Jesus Christ, except it is given him, and that the Holy Ghost govern his tongue.

The ability to seize initiative is the most essential quality of any truly successful manager.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

I began to understand that not only was there was a social justice agenda, there was a policy agenda. For every justice campaign there was a policy initiative associated with it.

In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook. And it's like, 'Let's set something up! I want to meet face-to-face.' And 'Take Me' was about, 'Are you going to take me out? Do I have to be the first person to make the move?'

I'm heartened that, for the first time, we're seeing some of the Internet Service Providers and the social media sites taking action against the Islamic State. That's the kind of initiative that can very, very much augment on an industrial scale what the government is trying to do.

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.

I've had business sense since I was very young. I sold chicken eggs when I was six.

All Americans should take great pride in the men and women serving our nation in Iraq and in the courage, determination, resilience and initiative they demonstrate each and every day. It remains the greatest of honors to soldier with them.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

If you want things done, you need to be able to find solutions.