Quotes About Initiative

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!

If I have the ball in my hands, I'll make a play. If don't, I'll try to get in position to make a play. I think that's what it comes down to.

My dad said, 'If you want to go out with girls and go out with your friends, get a job.' I found one at the local country club as a pot washer in the kitchen.

I want my hands in all the pots and not just one. I want to make the right moves that'll put me in the right place.

I want to go to every corner of the Earth where women are and make sure that every single woman on this planet knows that you should make the first move, it's OK to make the first move. They are equal, and they should be empowered.

There's no one way to the top. Make your own opportunities. See around corners. Raise your hand for assignments.

We live in a world where action is what counts.

It takes courage to be an entrepreneur.

I want to be the team that creates the action more than be the reactor.

Be a doer and not a critic.

In life it is easier to criticise people than be out there doing it yourself.

When you see something you want to do, go do the damn thing.

My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.

I'm so proud of the community we've been able to bring together, and the notion of women making the first move is no longer taboo; it's no longer a scarlet letter to have a voice.

Look around at things that just aren't getting done. Maybe there's a project you could tackle. Maybe there's an issue that always gets back-burnered for other priorities. Challenge yourself to take on those difficult assignments. They're learning opportunities, and you have a chance to change something for the better.

I take the bull by the horns and make a plan and go for it.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

It's in the American spirit to take advantage of an opportunity.

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.