Quotes About Initiative

Okay, he said to himself. Here goes.

If we are honest, most of us have to admit that prayer is often more of an obligation than something arising spontaneously from desire . . . the core of the misunderstanding lies in thinking of prayer as something that we do. Understood more correctly, prayer is what God does in us. Our part has much more to do with consent than initiative.

Most men just react to circumstances, but thinkers create the circumstances. If

None of us should wait to be told what to do, or how to do it. Micromanagement kills initiative, judgment and creativity.

Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.

A few weeks of fanfare and I'd drop show business, just like I had the guitar and my private detective agency. I hated having my life's ambition reduced to the level of a common cold. This wasn't a bug, but a full-fledged virus. It might lay low for a year or two, but this little germ would never go away. It has nothing to do with talent or initiative. Rejection couldn't weaken it, and no amount of success would ever satisfy it. Once diagnosed, the prognosis was terminal.

as soon as anything even remotely one percent promising starts to happen, you really jump on it with great enthusiasm and build on it quickly.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

We Afficans try raise our chillun right. When dey say we ign'nant we go together and build de school house. Den de county send us a teacher. We Afficky men doan wait lak de other colored people till de white folks gittee ready to build us a school. We build one for ourself den astee de county to send us de teacher.

I really do think that is why this country is so great: If you want to accomplish something, then you must do it.

I feel I don't face issues because I never seek work actively.

You do not want cricketers who are cowed by adversity, waiting for someone to tell them what to do.

I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

You can give a bunch of opportunities to people, but if they are not ambitious, nothing is going to happen.

One thing I would tell women is that they must take up the challenge. Very often, we anticipate a lot of problems, and therefore, we don't take the lead. And I think that we are shortchanging ourselves if we don't do that.

Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action.

Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things.

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.