Quotes About Initiative

It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom

Models of leader attributes that dominated in the early part of the 20th century emphasized leader traits. Several surveys and reviews of this literature identified a number of dispositional qualities that distinguished leaders from nonleaders, including intelligence, originality, dependability, initiative, desire to excel, sociability, adaptability, extroversion, and dominance. However, no single personal quality was strongly and consistently correlated with leadership.

Nobody's going to hand you anything. You don't get what you don't go after.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

The American system of rugged individualism.

There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of the individual, or we shall have a planned society that means dictation no matter what you call it or who does it. There is no half-way ground. They cannot be mixed.

There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.

If you don't create new opportunities within the confines of your "day job," they may never come your way.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it himself.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Stop waiting. Sink those pretty little teeth into something.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

Success begins the very moment when 'I might.' becomes 'I might as well.'.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.

Girlfriend, if you're waiting for a fairy godmother to show up with a dress and a ride, you're not going to make it to the party.

Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is a universal formula for success in a free society.

I love to talk. I love to share. I love to vent. But I prefer action.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

I cannot think of any venture I have initiated where an earlier failure wasn't an important precursor to an eventual success.

My first real venture was a paintball company I started in Grade 10, when I was 16. After hearing about it from a friend, I realized my town didn't have a playing field. I did some research, spoke with other paintball company owners, and I started my own field the following summer.