Quotes About Initiative

You are now required to know what you want and where to get it. You are in charge of manufacturing your own luck.

I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.

To live is not to breathe but to act.

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

You complain because things don't arrange themselves around you like a bouquet of flowers, without your taking the slightest trouble to do anything. But I have never asked as much: I wanted action. You know, when we played adventurer and adventuress: you were the one who had adventures, I was the one who made them happen.

My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

I think work begets work.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about consequences. Don't be afraid to get involved.

It's time for all Americans to get off of welfare and get back to work. You're going to love it!

I need to work outside government, on my own.

No use in waiting, we can all work hard to bring about changes.

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting.

I think that we have to do everything we can to work together, Democrats and Republicans, and then if we go the initiative route like we have done in the past, go together.

Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.

We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.

If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.