Quotes About Initiative

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

once in power he soon embarked upon a plan far more ambitious than that of any of his predecessors.

Het is altijd mijn overtuiging geweest dat je iemand brood moet geven als hij honger heeft, maar hem zelf voor het beleg moet laten zorgen. Dat stimuleert het initiatief.

Il n'est pas besoin d'espérer pour entreprendre ni de réussir pour persévérer.

Take not counsel of your fears. We need to move!

And since I can tell you're not the sort to show any actual goddamned initiative on your own part, you fucking cognitive mudfart, I care that your shitty little house is insulting me and my house—both of my houses, since I am still of House fucking Lagos.

We got to get thinkin' about doin' stuff that means somepin.

If you are thinking about making some adjustments in you life to allow you to help change the world, my heartfelt recommendation is not to spend too much time thinking about it. Just dive in.

Sometimes, it's really important to move with all deliberate speed. If there is something out there that you want to do to make the world a better place, don't focus on the obstacles. Don't ask for permission. Just dive in. Don't let the naysayers get you down.

My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!.

Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is not to act when action is needed.

Faith is an encounter in which God takes and keeps the initiative.

I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.

My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

We waste time dreaming for the perfect life, Instead of creating the perfect life ourself.

Don't wait around for others to experience life with you. Take the lead, go out, and get the most out of life. Eventually you'll have more company than you can handle.

Why stand around and wait for life to find you. Go out and search it.

Rather than wishing for a different world or expecting others to change it, you must create it yourself through your own actions.

The greatest miracle of your success in life will not be that you finished, it will be that you had the courage to begin.

There are two types of people in this world, those who see things happen and those who make things happen. Possible is possible when we desire to make it possible.

Taking the first step is always the most difficult but once you take it everything else falls in place and you begin to wonder why you were scared of taking that step.

People can be divided into three groups: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.