Quotes About Initiative

The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something. - Seth Godin

getting up and taking action. - Al Batt

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

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." "Will Rogers," I

You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.

To become a brand, you've got to become relentlessly focused on what you do that adds value. And I promise you can add value to whatever job you're doing now. Can you do what you do faster and more efficiently? If so, why not document what it would take to do so and offer it to your boss as something all employees might do? Do you initiate new projects on your own and in your spare time? Do you search out ways to save or make your company more money?

Be the CEO of your own life. Raise hell... I went our of my way to take on projects no one wanted and initiated projects no one has thought of doing... I'd make the effort to create the job that I thought would make me happy

We have to make our own opportunities. The world does not deliver kindnesses.

A go-getter is a cowboy who forgot to hobble his horse.

Creativity is a step beyond imagination because it requires that you actually do something rather than lie around thinking about it.

To be creative you actually have to do something.

We're waiting on God, and He's waiting on us, and He won't do anything until we act.

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.

Pair programmers: Keep each other on task. Brainstorm refinements to the system. Clarify ideas. Take initiative when their partner is stuck, thus lowering frustration. Hold each other accountable to the team's practices. Pairing

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look around and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

and persuasive when what he really wanted to do was get going. He said,

Czasem musimy zada? cios pierwsi, zanim inni go nam zadadz?.

Takie jest ?ycie, ma petite. Czasem musimy zada? cios pierwsi, zanim inni nam go zadadz?

1: Prioritize demanding activity over passive consumption.

Sometimes you have to be proactive. You can't just sit there, waiting for things to happen. For things to change. Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands.

No quiero empezar hasta no estar totalmente seguro'. Esta vaca me daba la tranquilidad de creer que estaba siendo responsable, pero lo que en realidad hizo fue impedirme realizar numerosos proyectos, esperando el momento propicio, o que se dieran todas las condiciones. Ahora me doy cuenta que si espero las circunstancias ideales para hacer las cosas, nunca emprenderé nada nuevo, así que he aprendido a actuar".

Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.