Quotes About Initiative

He found people respond to crises in two ways. Some get to work fixing the problem. Others, proving the problem wasn't their fault. Reacher liked the first kind. Rutherford seemed like the first kind. It was nice to see someone not dumping on him for a change.

And no soldier does more than he has to. No soldier ever has, since Alexander the Great first put his army together. Initiative in the ranks usually ends in tears. Especially where live ammunition is involved. And civilians.

Get your retaliation in first.

Caroline are definitely the people to carry it out." Men of ambition understood men of ambition

People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.

People of accomplishments rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things.

Those who accomplish don't sit around, hoping things will happen to them...

you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great

Si solamente hablases cuando alguien te preguntase, y si la otra persona siempre esperase que fueses tú quien iniciases la conversación, nunca nadie diría nada.

No doy nada a la gente en las manos, eso no serviría; debes tomarlo tú misma.

The strongest catalysts are specific actions.

Once, when she'd taken the initiative to rub down the window casings with ammonia, Jim had even complimented her. She'd beamed at him, married one year, already eight months pregnant and as eager as a lapdog for his sparing praise. Later, Lieutenant Difford had explained to her how ammonia was one of the few substances that rid surfaces of fingerprints.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.

Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.