Quotes About Initiative

Concern should drive us into action, not into depression

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

Don't be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Leadership is action, not position

Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

Leadership is knowing what you want and making it happen.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

The best way to learn is by doing; never ask others to do what you're not willing to do yourself.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.