Quotes About Initiative

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

And who would be willing to travel through hundreds of miles of wilderness, risking capture, carrying a letter telling the French to retreat? A young Virginian volunteered. George Washington, only twenty-one years old... found a wilderness guide and a translator to accompany him and set off...

Never ask, never get," the dog replied. "Never try, never taste. Never taste, never enjoy.

How many of us have gazed at a man and thought, 'yes, him,' only to have him pay his attentions to someone else? And how many of us have sighed and waited for some other gentleman to come forward? All I wish to ask is, why? Why not strike up a conversation? Why not determine for ourselves whether 'he' is the one? Why leave it to fate?" A LADY'S GUIDE TO PROPER BEHAVIOR, 2ND EDITION

Someone who can make things happen must be alerted.

If you cannot pick yourself up, if you cannot start taking action right now, then who is going to do it for you?

It's a huge edge, sometime life-saving, to adopt a good idea early and put it into practice.

Guys don't approach women who look like they are going to say 'Sorry, no.'

I've always made my opportunities, I've never been one to wait for them and sit around waiting for something to happen. I've always sought them out.

Don't just aim, Shoot!Don't just talk, Do!Don't just walk, Move!Don't just hope, Act!Don't just follow, Lead!Don't just dream, Live!Don't just exist, Love!

With all my heart, I'm willing to try a start

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

When he went to Orange, he did not say to himself, "I will try to induce Edison to give me a job of some sort." He said, "I will see Edison, and put him on notice that I have come to go into business with him.

DEFINITE CHIEF AIM; HABIT OF SAVING; SELF CONFIDENCE; IMAGINATION; INITIATIVE; LEADERSHIP; ENTHUSIASM; SELF CONTROL; DOING MORE THAN PAID FOR; PLEASING PERSONALITY; ACCURATE THOUGHT; CONCENTRATION; COOPERATION; FAILURE; TOLERANCE; GOLDEN RULE; THE MASTER MIND.

MOST IDEAS ARE STILL-BORN, AND NEED THE BREATH OF LIFE INJECTED INTO THEM THROUGH DEFINITE PLANS OF IMMEDIATE ACTION.

Note the Strong Man. He sees a thing to do and immediately DOES it. The thing may look trivial. It may even seem the work of some other fellow. But without hesitancy, as though dispute was greater than the task, the Strong Man gets the thing Done — so that he may have Time for other and Bigger things.

Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the time to be right to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

The Successful are they that See and Do — the Unsuccessful are they that See — and do not Do.

Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put it into action.

Once for all, break the "Let George Do It" habit. When a task steps up before you — take hold of it and do it Yourself.