Quotes About Initiative

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, "I'd like to do this, or that.

It is never easy being the one who takes the first step. But if we want things to mature in our life, we must fight for them relentlessly without compromise or excuse.

Be prepared to go the extra mile; there is less competition there.

Courage follows action.

the description of myself that I like best is that of problem-solver, or doer.

Timidity creates nothing.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Things don't just happen. They are made to happen.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

I believe in an America where the free enterprise system flourishes for all other systems to see and admire - where no businessman lacks either competition or credit - and where no monopoly, no racketeer, no government bureaucracy can put him out of business that he built up with his own initiative.

One man can make a difference and everyone should try

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It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.

If you see a problem, Theo, think of a way to fix it and do it now. Don't spend all your time making plans.

Los movimientos vivos no nacen de comisiones, ni las grandes ideas operan por correo

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

that American economic assistance would produce immediate psychological benefits and later material ones that would reverse this trend; that the Soviet Union would not itself accept such aid or allow its satellites to, thereby straining its relationship with them; and that the United States could then seize both the geopolitical and the moral initiative in the emerging Cold War.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance