Quotes About Initiative

No battle plan can anticipate all contingencies. There are always unexpected factors including those stemming from the opponent's initiative. A battle must thus becomes a balance between plan and improvisation, between error and correction. It is a narrow line. But it is a line one's opponent must also walk. For all the balance of experience and cleverness, it is often the warrior who acts quickest who will prevail.

In life, it's not what you hope for, its not what you deserve, it's what you take.

I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

My entire business model is to go on offense.

In politics as in sports, the best defense is a good offense.

I can create offensive situations for myself and I can create situations for other people.

Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

I just opened a free, public MMA gym in Paraiba, so why can't Curitiba or Sao Paulo have one? No money? Someone needs to do this.

If I see an opening, I go for it.

I like to create openings.

As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might just as well pop right at it and get it over.

The ideal adventurer needs... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs...

he had put it in the hands of a young man who in all his life had only once shown genuine inspiration and initiative – on the occasion when he had parted his hair in the middle at a time when all the other members of the Bachelors' Club were brushing it straight back.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

When there is little you can do, you do what you can.

The initiative to undertake your most important duty in life is often buried beneath the accumulated debris of human habits.

I have now mentioned several important attributes of success — positive thoughts, dynamic will, self-analysis, initiative, and self-control. Many popular books stress one or more of these, but fail to give credit to the Divine Power behind them. Attunement with the Divine Will is the most important factor in attracting success.

Face the facts: Quite worrying; then do something about it!

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Question No. 2 -What can I do about it? (Please write your answer to that question in the space below.) Question No. 3 —Here is what I am going to do about it. Question No. 4 —When am I going to start doing it?

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.