Quotes About Initiative

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days. Whatever you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game

There will never be "the right time" in your life to do a great thing. You must create that time and greatness will follow.

The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.

On the other hand, if an experience arouses curiosity, strengthens initiative, and sets up desires and purposes that are sufficiently intense to carry a person over dead places in the future, continuity works in a very different way. Every experience is a moving force.

Do something about your life now.

Dont be a life spectator.. take the plunge.

Life's not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.

My life is immeasurably enriched by taking personal responsibility to do what I can, with what I have, where I am.

Be the first to say, "Hello".

Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

No, everyone has great ideas, but what makes a difference, especially online, or just in life, is actually doing it; getting that first version out there.

First person to appreciate the good points of others is always special in life as he or she manifests his or her leadership through initiatives.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery of the novel and beautiful world awaiting every child comes self-confidence. The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing—"carry a message to Garcia."

We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and in honors, for but one thing. And that is initiative. What is initiative? I'll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.