Quotes About Initiative

My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out.

I've always been comfortable being the first person at a party, metaphorically speaking - being the first person on the dance floor, saying, 'This is where it's happening, people, and if you don't think so, that's cool, but I think you're missing out.' That's my general philosophy, and it's served me pretty well.

To empower the women in rural areas, we have started something called Mission Shakti.

It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.

Get there first with the most.

We want to find a way to be an environmental leader in motor sports, as well as in sports in general.

No battle plan can anticipate all contingencies. There are always unexpected factors, including those stemming from the opponent's initiative. A battle thus becomes a balance between plan and improvisation, between intellect and reflex, between error and correction.

The universe doesn't make a doggone thing happen. You make things happen for yourself.

Don't wait until you become a big shot to do big-shot

restriction upon autonomy and initiative.

Since 1973, however, free-market theorists had re-emerged, vociferous and confident, to blame endemic economic recession and attendant woes upon 'big government' and the dead hand of taxation and planning that it placed upon national energies and initiative. In many places this rhetorical strategy was quite seductive to younger voters with no first-hand experience of the baneful consequences of such views the last time they had gained intellectual ascendancy, half a century before.

here, it was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of conservatives felt emboldened to challenge the 'statism' of their predecessors and offer radical prescriptions for dealing with what they described as the 'sclerosis' of over-ambitious governments and their deadening impact upon private initiative.

You gonna do somethin'? Or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

Think of all the fabulous things that have happened in the world because someone has just done it-you know, just jumped off the cliff and worried about the dangers when it's all over.

Walking seasons are marked by our initiatives to co-labor with God's divine purposes, to extend the borders of the Kingdom into the lives of others.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone of something to change your life.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone or something to change your life.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

Warren's actions on Little Round Top on July 2 demonstrated clearly how a senior leader in the heat of crisis should recognize a threat, assess its danger, form a workable plan, and follow it through to execution. A century later, his decision making on July 2 became a standard example of sound command initiative used in U.S. Army leadership manuals.

Instead of just giving employees an award for the smartest idea or praise for a brilliant performance, they would get praise for taking initiative, for seeing a difficult task through, for struggling and learning something new, for being undaunted by a setback, or for being open to and acting on criticism.