Quotes About Initiative

The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.

Don't just try to find great opportunities. Find an opportunity and make it great.

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana is not a scheme that can be run by money. This scheme has to run with people's participation under the guidance of the MPs.

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

God helps only those who are prepared and determined to help themselves.

The Lord helps those who help themselves.

And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

'God helps those who help themselves.' - it's a very true saying.

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

What changes your world is not wishing for change; what changes your world is changing!

You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.

Nothing great happens when you hold back.

I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.