Quotes About Initiative

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Do not wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." W. H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951

where there is no system for honoring the avoidance of a bad decision or the cessation of bad behavior. Our performance reviews are solely based on what we've done, what numbers we've delivered, what increases we have posted against last year's results. Even the seemingly minor personal goals are couched in terms of actions we've initiated, not behavior we have stopped. We get credit for being punctual, not for stopping our lateness.

Our agents reported that the journos weren't persuading anyone new; they were just keeping the Initiative's supporters from wavering in their calls for our heads.

the word "lead" has an Indo-European root that means "to go forth, die.

You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.

After having been made a wife to an older man and an attendant to a princess, the identity she chose to retain was the one she had acquired by her own initiative: that of an author.

Specifically, what are you going to do to deal with that matter? What are your action items here? What are your ideas about solving that problem? When will you carry out that plan? Keep the questions you-oriented so that

Unlike all earlier Roman reformers, Gaius sponsored not just a single initiative but a dozen or so. He was the first politician in the city, leaving aside the mythical founding fathers, to have an extensive and coherent programme, with measures that covered such things as the right of appeal against the death penalty, the outlawing of bribery and a much more ambitious scheme of land distribution than Tiberius had ever proposed.

If you can do more, you should!

Yes, I could turn away and ignore everything in my heart. Leave it to someone else! Maybe hundreds have! But maybe I choose to step forward, instead of stepping back.

If your ship hasn't come in, swim out to it.

There are four kinds of people in this world: •those who make things happen •those who watch things happen •those who wonder what happened •those who don't know that anything happened! I knew from a very early age that I wanted to be first on that list.

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

Breaking down a closed door is quicker than waiting for someone to answer it.

If you don't do something you will simply get overwhelmed by something happening.

We can't be spectators our whole lives, right? At some point we have to take a risk. Step into the action.

Start fires. But only metaphorically. Unless you are cold and it's a safe setting. In which case: start fires.

Take some small action. Resistance hates action.

I began my ministry with some zeal, endeavouring to improve the lives of my flock by launching a little campaign to have the alehouse open only three days in the week instead of seven, and offering--as a nobler recompense--two extra church services. Sadly this little initiative was answered, in certain quarters, with something like hostility.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock.