Quotes About Initiative

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.

I've never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me.

We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.

I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

If you don't act on life, life will act on you

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

Let's make something happen to this world.

As a member of the Global Network Initiative, Microsoft had committed to "protect and advance user rights to freedom of expression and privacy, including when faced with government demands for censorship." Specifically, member companies were supposed to work to "avoid or minimize the impact of government restrictions on freedom of expression.

Don't wait to be reminded to focus on your own development.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen ... those who watch things happen ... and those who wonder what happened.

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

I want you, and I'm not the kind of guy to sit back and wait for good things to come to me.

You don't have to be ready. You just have to go.

There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?

J'aime les gens qui prennent leur vie en main, moi ! Je n'aime pas les feignants qui se font plaindre.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Merci d'avoir fait le premier pas vers nos retrouvailles, car de mon côté, plus les jours passaient et moins j'osais.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.