Quotes About Initiative

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your buisness.

Knowledge is not enough. You must take action!

When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act. I am a person of action.

Leading is doing. To lead, I must move forward.

We can't do everything at once, but, by God, we can do something at once!" Changing

We can't stay here." When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act.

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea.

The leader is the one who has the courage to act on what he sees.

Leaders are not always the first to see an opportunity. They are simply the first to seize an opportunity. It is the person who seizes the opportunity who emerges as the leader. But fear has kept many would-be leaders on the sidelines, while good opportunities paraded by. They didn't lack insight. They lacked courage.

Leaders are not always the first to see the need for change, but they are the first to act. And once they move away from the pack, they are positioned to lead.

This goes right to the heart of leadership. Leaders instill courage in the hearts of those who follow. This rarely happens through words alone. It generally requires action. It goes back to what we said earlier: Somebody has to go first. By going first, the leader furnishes confidence to those who follow. In this way, leaders give permission.

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.

I always wanted to have a scenario where the guy didn't have my number, but I had his. What if women make the first move, send the first message? And if they don't, the match disappears after 24 hours, like in Cinderella, the pumpkin and the carriage? It'd be symbolic of a Sadie Hawkins dance - going after it, girls ask first.

Instead of pondering about what if or what could have been, I'm just going to go out there and do.

When in doubt, make plays.

Where there is a challenge there has to be a response.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Girls are so quick to say they can't do something, and they won't even try, whereas boys tend to just go for something even if it's probably a bad idea.

I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.

I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers.