Quotes About Initiative

Theodore Roosevelt offered this bit of Stoic-inspired advice: "Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

Sometimes any move at all is better than nothin. If you're right you're one up. If you're wrong you start over.

If we do only what is required of us we are slaves, the moment we do more we are free. – CICERO

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

Unfortunately, you're wrong. Motivation does not come first, action does! You have to prime the pump. Then you will begin to get motivated, and the fluids will flow spontaneously.

First initiative, then life.

The Iron Law of Liberalism states that any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs.

Always be the first to move; don't wait until the

The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move.

What is new in your fight is the fact that it was initiated, fed, and sustained by students.

To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off postpone.

Do it because it needs to be done. Do it to make your world better…just a little at a time.

After hearing the kids at the Ground discuss the Pro Tour, Finkel burned to compete. But the event was invite only. And who was going to invite a total unknown? Rather than sit by the side, he picked up the phone and called Wizards. "My name is Jon Finkel," he loudly declared, "and I was wondering if I could come to the Pro Tour." What the hell, the staff at Wizards thought, if the kid had the balls to call up and ask for an invitation, how could they say no? Careful

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.