Quotes About Initiative

The best way to do it, is to do it!

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Never wait for opportunity to knock at your door. If you can't find any, then create one yourself.

Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers.

Any man of energy and initiative in this country can get what he wants out of life. But when initiative is crippled by legislation or by a tax system which denies him the right to receive a reasonable share of his earnings, then he will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends.

God says to us "Some things won't get done unless you do them.

The army don't teach enlisted men how to fly," I said, trying to hold onto my dignity. "We gotta do that for ourselves.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks.

We need a conservative welfare reform initiative that is focused on putting people back to work and ensures taxpayer money is only spent on programs that have been proven to work.

The cradle-to-grave welfare state diminishes individual initiative and can breed a pervasive sclerosis.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there and start being well known, you can't just think projects will come to you. You have to start doing your own projects because if you don't, you'll miss out, and eventually your fame will be over.

In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.

One of our secret-sauce powers is that our people don't just write checks and place the ads, but our employees go the extra mile to get things done.

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.

We ship owners and our predecessors, all the way back to the dawn of history, operating in majority on private initiative and at our own risk, have been linking the world together much more effectively than governments ever managed to do or will likely ever be capable of doing.

I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.

My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

The American political system is based on the president taking the initiative and Congress responding. With President Trump, it's been the opposite.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

What I saw in my first year as secretary of state was a danger that if Britain didn't lead the way on climate change nothing would happen. I thought: If I don't lead, no one else is going to.