Quotes About Initiative

I have a track record of getting things done as secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn't find you, you find it.

I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.

In a word, what characterizes the spiritist revelation is that while divine in its origin and of the initiative of the Spirits, its elaboration is fruit of man's work.

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Initiative is key. Anybody who wants to be somebody is going to work as hard as they can to fulfill that dream.

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Life is a do-it-yourself kit, so do it yourself. Work. Practice.

Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.