Quotes About Initiative

you'll find plenty to keep you busy, just do whatever you see before you that needs to be done.

He was a man who always acted on Flagler's business motto of favoring "sharp, vigorous and decisive measures.

Doing for people what they can, and ought to do for themselves, is a dangerous experiment," the great labor leader Samuel Gompers said. "In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends on their own initiative." The classic "liberal" believed individuals should be masters of their own destiny and the least government is the best government; these are precepts of freedom and self-reliance that are at the root of the American way and the American spirit.

There are two kinds of opportunities: one which we chance upon, the other which we create.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Success isn't something that happens to you; you happen to it.

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.

Find a need and fill it.

When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.

Success is not going to just come to you. You must go out and get it.

If not me- who?, If not now- when?

People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change