Quotes About Initiative

When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.

When you stop relying on others or blaming others or waiting on others to go kill something and bring it back for you to eat, you realize you have to go hunt and kill for yourself. You don't complain about what you lack or let setbacks get in the way of finding a way to make your dreams happen. You just go do it.

You'll never change the world just by complaining.

That's the difference between us and white folks, she told herself. They don't stop to say "I can't" or "Should I," they just do.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something.

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.