Quotes About Initiative

So many people are campaigning, fighting, and even dying to make a statement in the name of humanity. These people have no voice that can be heard by many. I wish more celebrities would take the initiative to be that voice.

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

What battle has ever been won by staying in camp and talking to your fellow soldier?

Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

Changes occur after taking practical steps, not by chanting slogans and giving speeches.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

the best way to be allowed to do something was to do it with authority and put the onus on someone to stop you.

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

Men who are capable of real action first make their plans and then go forward without hesitation while their enemies have still not made up their minds.

When there is no work, I create my own.

Women all think that if a guy likes you he will come and talk to you. That's nonsense - 'actually the opposite is true. The more attractive he finds you, the less likely it is he'll talk to you.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.

Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.

We like the opportunity to get off to a fast start, no matter what our schedule says, and that's our objective.

There are always people that will rise to the occasion when there is no occasion, but it is hard to find people will do it when there is.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Kennedy and Johnson had more to offer than bread alone. Initiatives such as the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress were intended to stimulate political as well as economic development.

competition will always place your life in the hands of others, while initiative gives you the freedom to choose your own destiny Ã¢â'¬Â¦