Quotes About Initiative

Clarissa said she would buy the flowers herself.

Voluntary cooperation is more than mechanical execution, where people do only what it takes to get by. It involves going beyond the call of duty, wherein individuals exert energy and initiative to the best of their abilities—even subordinating personal self-interest—to execute resulting strategies.3

Voluntary cooperation is more than mechanical execution, where people do only what it takes to get by. It involves going beyond the call of duty, wherein individuals exert energy and initiative to the best of their abilities—even subordinating personal self-interest—to execute resulting strategies.

opportunity-maximizing and risk-minimizing principles driving the creation and capture of blue oceans, the odds will be lengthened against your blue ocean initiative.

From this moment forward, we play by our own rules. Whatever it takes, whatever the cost. Our new mission begins now.

many forces in the social, cultural, and physical environment conspire against such change (Institute of Medicine, 2000, p. 4). It is therefore essential for a successful prevention initiative to be comprehensive; it must address the environmental as well as individual

Your situation will improve right after YOU improve.

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

When you find yourself in a position in which you have not asked but need to, are you relying too heavily on luck, chance, or time? Push those temptations away, and make your ask.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

This was the second job she had lost in the last eight months, and for the same reasons. Not a people person. Not a self-starter. Showed no initiative. She wanted to argue that minimum-wage jobs such as this shouldn't require initiative. She knew how to live inside an hour, how to weather the slow passing of time. She could endure boredom better than anyone she knew. Wasn't that enough? Apparently not.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.

Why should I just sit around hoping it happens when maybe I can do something to make it happen?

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Sometimes a champion is the one who is ready to act, not the strongest or the bravest.

There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

Never confuse movement with action. —Ernest Hemingway

...for nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.

In these circumstances I think we must take the bull by the horns... and, making due allowances, quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves.