Quotes About Initiative

Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

Nothing happens until you decide.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.

If you wait until you know everything, you never do anything.

If there's a problem, you fix it. You don't set up fences around it and make rules about how it should be fixed. You fix it.

Most armies practiced mass maneuvers, preformed strategies. Ender had none. Instead he trained his toon leaders to use their small units effectively in achieving limited goals. Unsupported, alone, on their own initiative.

As Napoleon said, the only thing a commander ever truly controls is his own army—training, morale, trust, initiative, command and, to a lesser degree, supply, placement, movement, loyalty, and courage in battle.

Better light a candle than curse the darkness.

I want to just DO SOMETHING instead of ask someone else to start a process to investigate the possibility of someday possibly maybe doing something.

Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

Hobey-Ho, let's go.

Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.

Then let's go!

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The world owes its progress to the men who have dared

while it is a great truth to say that the Negro must strive and strive mightily to help himself, it is equally true that unless his striving be not simply seconded, but rather aroused and encouraged, by the initiative of the richer and wiser environing group, he cannot hope for great success.

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it

the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action.

He also had a trait, so common among innovators, that was charmingly described by his biographer Andrew Hodges: "Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.

Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.

In our time equality is confused with conformity – as Nietzsche sees it– and it is taken to involve the renunciation of personal initiative and the demand for a general leveling. Men are losing the ambition to be equally excellent, which involves as the surest means the desire to excel one another in continued competition, and they are becoming resigned to being equally mediocre.