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Quotes About Initiative

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Haz lo que puedas, con lo que tengas, donde estés
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Turnaround begins with you. Outward focus begins with you. Revitalization begins with you.
~ Thom S. Rainer
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.
~ Steve Blank
Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.
~ Veerappa Moily
You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.
~ Nick Woodman
Benjamin Netanyahu seems to avoid any initiative.
~ Ehud Barak
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.
~ Tina Fey
I always had that get-up-and-go to work for myself - I never wanted a nine-to-five job.
~ Luke Campbell
Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! Go! Go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go.
~ Jeannette Rankin
It was a coach called Adailton Ladeira who first asked me to play as left-back in 1988. I was a left-winger, but our left-back was injured at Uniao Sao Joao, my first club, and he asked me to fill in. I said 'no problem,' and I've played there ever since.
~ Roberto Carlos
That's the trick- is just as soon as you have an idea in life, do it and act on it. [...] Cause I can't tell you how many video ideas I've had die on the vine because I gave myself too long to think about them, and then overthought them; because the more time you put between you and working on an idea you have, the more opportunities you're giving yourself, giving your shit brain, to talk yourself out of it.
~ Nick Robinson
We've got to live in the real world. If we don't like the world we're living in, change it. And if we can't change it, we change ourselves. We can do something.
~ Nikki Giovanni
if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
~ Nora Roberts
If you don't go after what you want, you will never have it; If you don't ask, the answer is always no; If you don't step forward, you are always in the same place.
~ Nora Roberts
Girl, if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
~ Nora Roberts
Then you'd best get started." Millie eyed the birds, rubbing her hands together. "All right, ladies, let's boot the men along and get started ourselves." They had their feast, a happy family group, roasted wild pheasant seasoned with tarragon, stuffed with oranges, apples, shallots, and
~ Nora Roberts
Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
~ Virgil
Incepto Ne Desistam!
~ Virgil
To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.
~ Virginia Woolf