Quotes About Initiative

Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.

Nothing every happens unless you push it. Ed Rasala. 111

is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect

Be brave. Be bold. Don't wait for change. Seize your own life and make it.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

You should motivate yourself, NOW!

Success belongs to those who have these two attributes: • An insatiable desire to learn • An unquenchable bias for action

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

after philosophy, action is required;

There's no substitute for talking to the people you love. Thinking about them, dreaming about them, wishing things were different Ã¢â'¬Â¦ all of these are the beginning. But someone has to make the first move. I

There's no substitute for talking to the people you love. Thinking about them, dreaming about them, wishing things were different…all of these are the beginning. But someone has to make the first move. I

There's no substitute for talking to the people you love. Thinking about them, dreaming about them, wishing things were different…all of these are the beginning. But someone has to make the first move.

If you want to turn your life you're going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing things to happen to you

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

I disliked the levelling aspect of this sinnerdom, it was like a cricket match played in the drizzle, where everyone had an excuse - and what a dull excuse! - for playing badly. Life was meant to test a man, bring out his courage, initiative, resource; and I longed, I thought, to be tested: I did not want to fall on my knees and call myself a miserable sinner.

There is everywhere the life of the people, everywhere liberty, everywhere a free atmosphere, everywhere popular supervision, everywhere responsibility. Some people speak of bosses. There were no bosses at all in the Socialist party. Supervision was exercised or can be exercised over those so-called bosses. It used to depend--and it still depends--on the members to invoke the relevant statutory regulations. A strong supervisory control is organized by them and depends only on their initiative.

You know, I don't ask myself too much how. I just do it.

Life won't just happen to you boy, he said. You have to happen to it.

Tools?" scoffed Kalisti, "Tools are for people who have nothing better to do than think things through and make sensible plans.

The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything

Rather than sitting and worrying, do something, anything. Worrying is a waste of time

I have no idea what to do." Which was my mom's way of saying, "Now you do something." When my mom said she was out of ideas, it meant I had to step up.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

You have to go for it. For the rest of us.