Quotes About Initiative

four key principles: (1) taking the initiative to reach out to others; (2) showing genuine interest in people; (3) treating others with respect and kindness; and (4) valuing others and yourself as unique individuals who have much to share and offer one another.

We can't sit around waiting for things to happen. We've got to make them happen. Nothing's going to fall in our laps. That only happens to beautiful white people.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Decried every day as a feckless thing without initiative or ambition, a thing not to be mentioned in the same breath as private enterprise, government became that thing. First sequester its responsibilities, sell off its functions, grant it no respect; run it into the ground and then declare it incompetent.

Leadership is action, not position.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Don't let your life wait for other people.

You have an advantage in life when you start where others talk first.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

If you wait until everything in your life is perfect before you begin something challenging and new, you'll be waiting forever. The best time is NOW.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

When in doubt, do something.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

You can't just wish for a better life, you must go out there and create it.

You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

You can't start motoring up life's road until you get your buns in gear.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.