Quotes About Initiative

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

Every man paddles his own canoe.

When I saw something that needed doing, I did it.

I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

I can always make it a rule to get there first with the most men.

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.

The world belongs to the energetic.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Sometimes "the fool who rushes in" gets the job done.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Seize time by the forelock.

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.