Quotes About Initiative

The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.

Don't wait around waiting for God to do something that He's already given you the power to do.

I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.

God doesn't move until we move first.

If God did not act first, no one would be saved.

If you don't attempt things, you don't attract God.

When it comes to bringing an idea that God has given you to fruition, don't wait for it to happen again, you have to get out there and make it happen.

If you want to see God move make a move.

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

God can't drive a parked car.

Fear is never a good enough reason to do nothing

I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.

Start before you're ready. Good things happen when we start before we're ready.

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

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

If we want the nation to move ahead, then we'll have to leave behind the thinking that Government will do everything...we all need to collectively devote to make our country move forward.

'Let's Move!' is not about having government tell people what to do, because government doesn't have all the answers.

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

Last year I spoke about Clean India and open defecation, it was criticised then but that has been the main point with which the government has touched the lives of the people.

Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.

If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.