Quotes About Initiative

My father always used to say, you want things right, you have to put 'em right yourself.

The general with the smallest numbers should remain always on the offensive.

If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.

If you're waiting for someone to make the world just right for you so you can succeed, you're on the road to nowhere.

But Reich would eventually arrive at a more nuanced conclusion: "Bill Clinton operated by sonar. He emits a huge number of policies, ideas, and initiatives and he sees what kind if response he gets. And where he sees an opportunity to move, he moves.

Kinas övergång till kapitalism var med andra ord ett resultat av gräsrötternas initiativ och mod. Det fanns ingen plan för det – allt som gjorde Kina rikt hände utanför femårsplanerna.

If there isn't a group doing what you believe needs to be done, set it up and email me at [email protected], and I'll add it to the book's website and to future editions of this book.

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.

The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.

Infuse your life with action.

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.

Nothing happens until you decide.

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.

You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.

Courage and initiative come when you understand your purpose in life.