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Quotes About Initiative

Initiative doesn't cost a thing, feel free to take all you want.
~ Unknown
3.  OFFER A REWARD
~ Donald Miller
The world won't come to me...so I must go to it.
~ Donna Tartt
Do it and do it now. Err on the side of taking action.
~ J. Willard Marriott
courage needs to be paired with discipline, individual initiative with support to your comrades.
~ Jack Campbell
The world responds to those who ask—Lisa
~ Jack Canfield
Remember, nothing will change until you do.
~ Jack Canfield
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
~ Jack Canfield
El secreto de avanzar es comenzar. El secreto de comenzar es dividir las tareas complejas y abrumadoras en tareas pequeñas, manejables, y empezar por la primera. MARK T WAIN
~ Jack Canfield
Who has begun, has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin! –Horace, Epistles
~ Jack Canfield
Rick decided to publish it himself. To promote the book, he took a booth at a regional
~ Jack Canfield
It was the first time he'd circumvented the chain of command, going around his boss in the SOCOM Acquisition Office. With results like this he might have to do it more often.
~ Unknown
Good. What do you need to pull it off?" "Take a breath, look around, make a call," Reece muttered.
~ Unknown
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
~ Jack London
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.
~ Jack London
It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.
~ Jack Welch
When launching something new, you have to go for it—"playing not to lose" can never be an option.
~ Jack Welch
Henry Flagler: "Do unto others as they would do unto you—and do it first.
~ Unknown
Changing my own actions may not change the world, but it's a start.
~ Unknown
Sometimes procrastination is an action, not inaction.
~ Jacquelyn Frank
Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.
~ Jacques Derrida
Then there is the modern passion for nature. When it is not stockbrokers out after a moose, it is a crowd of brainless conformists camping out on order and as they are told. Nowhere is there any initiative or eccentricity.
~ Jacques Ellul
I'm a good self-starter when it comes to guilt.
~ Unknown
Okay," he said, informing the universe he was ready for decisive action.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea