Quotes About Initiative

acción siempre vence a la pasividad.

Con frecuencia, quienes avanzan en el mundo real no son los inteligentes sino los temerarios.

and rush off to do something.

His habit had been to go and meet whatever needed to be met, not to wait idly for what might approach.

Concentrate on what you need to do... Do step one. Begin! That's the important thing- Did you do step one? Did you actually do it?... It's not a matter of 'Can you do it?' If you do it, you're doing it.

Why don't you light that candle ?

I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realized the person I was waiting for was myself.

There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

The mystic experience is man's turning toward God; the prophetic act is God's turning toward man. The former is first of all an event in the life of man, contingent on the aspiration and initiative of man; the latter is first of all an event in the life of God, contingent on the pathos and initiative of God. From the mystic experience we may gain an insight of man into the life of God; from the prophetic act we learn of an insight of God into the life of man.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

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

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Romy had never done a budget, Marisol had never designed costumes and sets, and Suzanne had never acted, but when I asked them to help, they didn't hesitate

I took the initiative in creating the Internet

Alan Dean Foster

Forget motivation; just get used to doing things straight away.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

When Jann Wenner, the hopelessly liberal founder of Rolling Stone magazine, was interviewing Bob Dylan in 2006, he was told that politicians cannot be counted on to solve problems. To him, the statement seemed absurd. "Who is going to solve them?" Wenner asked, incredulous. Dylan replied, "Our own selves2." He's exactly right. If we want things

le mot « sujet » a deux sens en français : c'est à la fois « une subjectivité libre : un centre d'initiatives, auteur et responsable de ses actes », et « un être assujetti, soumis à une autorité supérieure, donc dénué de toute liberté, sauf d'accepter librement sa soumission ». (p. 92)

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. That task becomes a nightmare.