Quotes About Initiative

In Iowa, we're fortunate to have a public-private initiative called the EPIC Corporate Challenge. EPIC stands for 'Economic Potential for Iowa Companies and Communities.'

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

A man can't just sit around.

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little.

The world does not pay men for that which they "know". It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Men are much more agressive with their advances.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

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Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you've got.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.