Quotes About Initiative

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Then quit sitting here like a whiny pussy and go do something about it.

Let's go, Evelyn.

Make the calls. Maybe they won't talk to you, but I guarantee that if you don't call, they won't talk to you.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can't wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people.

There's no doubt that our hearts are with the residents of Gaza. We and the whole world are unable to get to a situation in which Gaza can be rehabilitated. There needs to be an international initiative with Israel's participation, in order to bring an end to the enmity against us.

It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

the worst thing we can do, the absolute worst, is to do nothing.

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

Do your best with what you have where you are.

stand up, be bold. you are the sole and only cause.

In Coach Wooden's case, the term "drill" does indeed refer to making execution automatic, but it also means more. He designed lessons so that players could execute the fundamentals so well that they were able to, as the opportunity presented itself, take initiative and exercise imagination. "Drilling created a foundation," he likes to say, "on which individual initiative and imagination can flourish.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

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.

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little; do something.

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something