Quotes About Initiative

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

Yes, I do. The ones who aren't growing and evolving, who are standing still. They're the ones who rarely got better.' 'Yes, that was it,' said Gamache. 'They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.' 'Ben,' said Peter.

the most powerful, spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well. We're the only ones who can change our lives, turn them around. So all those years waiting for someone else to do it are wasted.

Do what you will, only do something.

overcome some of the most common objections to implementing change: 'I don't know where to start' and 'I don't have time'.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl

If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

The reality is that you will never get much done unless you go ahead and do it before you are ready.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself." —Andrew Carnegie

you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Winning teams have players who make things happen.

If you are to become more sensitive, you must be willing to take a risk. Take the initiative to find a need and take action.

Whenever people on my team come to me with a problem, I ask them to prepare at least three solutions to that problem.

IT'S THE JOB THAT IS NEVER STARTED THAT TAKES THE LONGEST TO FINISH.

LEADERS Initiate Lead; pick up phone and make contact Spend time planning anticipate problems Invest time with people Fill the calendar by priorities FOLLOWERS React Listen; wait for phone to ring Spend time living day-to-day; react to problems Spend time with people Fill the calendar by requests

Raymond Smith, former CEO and Chairman of the Bell Atlantic Corporation, once remarked, "Taking the safe road, doing your job, and not making any waves may not get you fired (right away, at least), but it sure won't do much for your career or your company over the long haul. We're not dumb. We know that administrators are easy to find and cheap to keep. Leaders—risk takers—are in very short supply. And ones with vision are pure gold.

ARE YOU STRIVING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, OR HAVE YOU BEEN COASTING?

Ideas have a short half-life: if you don't put them to action, they die off.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date

Atrévete a soñar, pero por favor también actúa. Porque los soñadores son muchos, pero los hacedores son pocos.15

know how" to "do now.