Quotes About Initiative

As respostas surgiram depressa: lealdade, honestidade, iniciativa, otimismo, trabalho em equipe, entusiasmo durante as oito horas de trabalho. A reunião terminou com um sentimento de coragem e inspiração

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

Generally speaking we are in God's will whenever we are leading the kind of life he wants for us. And that leaves a lot of room for initiative on our part, which is essential: our individual initiatives are central to his will for us.

Human initiative is not canceled by God redeeming us; it is heightened by immersion in the flow of God's life.

Preliminary 3: Deciding to Do It

But responsibility and initiative are the heart of our relationship with God. We are not robots, and he does not work with robots.

Act first, explain later.

The new measure takes for granted having enough intellectual ability and technical know-how to do our jobs; it focuses instead on personal qualities, such as initiative and empathy, adaptability and persuasiveness.

Dan, you don't mean to tell me that you didn't get in touch with the bookstores in Detroit and tell them about it." "No," I said. "I'm kind of shy. And I didn't think it was my job." "Dan, you shouldn't hide your light under a bushel

"Life only delivers to people that create their own postal code."

In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.

Successful people never ask if things will work. They are willing to try and find out.

The key to success is to start before you are ready.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring.

Reading is good, action is better.

Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.

We can only bring changes by taking a position, and by our actions

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

One must begin in one's own life the private solutions that can only in turn become public solutions.

Competition is frequently praised as a great virtue to be developed by everyone. This is a costly misunderstanding, since human skills develop adequately only in cooperation, a condition of reinforcement. Competition always lies at cross-purposes with cooperation and thus frustrates individual human initiative.

No move is the wrong move, What? Sometimes any move at all is better than nothin. If you're right, you're one up. If you're wrong you start over. This sittin and waiting for somebody else to make up their mind is for the God-damned birds. You have to take control of your own life.

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.