Quotes About Initiative

Our strengths and gifts are not worth much if we allow them to lie dormant... If we do not hone our gifts and live on the ready instead of in a default mode of looking to others, in a crisis or under pressure we are at a loss to use our voices, make decisions, stand our ground, or take the initiative that our circumstances demand.

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

When in doubt, ATTACK!

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

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.

We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done.

A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. ... You might not be home.

If you want to succeed in the world, you must make your own opportunities.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

The successful man is one who had the chance and took it.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless.

Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare.

Unless you enter the tiger's den, you cannot take the cubs.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.