Quotes About Initiative

Some People Make Things Happen, Some Watch Things Happen, While Others Wonder What Has Happened.

you have to get your hands dirty if you want to change things.

Se uno non prova, non cambia niente

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it's resourcefulness.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

An effective way to stay happier & for longer tenure in a private organization is either to play dirty office politics everyday or to do work only that much what seniors say but never creative/take initiative and remain fool forever.

Employees normally don't take any initiative in the private organization because it has been seen often that one who undertakes it hardly gets its result benefit ,but somebody else is given knowingly by the management all its credit, promotion and incentive.

Many social networking site account acts as a mirror reflecting the image of people's mentality in the society as in all such, there is an insignificant number of initiative taker; a very few regular worker; some followers as opportunity seekers; others as neutral bystanders; but most of them as onlookers opening their account only to sneak peek or flip pages to read others posts. However, the most surprising element is one who spends maximum time online without any contribution as such.

The tendency of modern political thought is to increase the control of government, and to regard all departments of activity as branches of the state, to be held and worked for the general good of the community. Thus there is a danger that the individual may gradually lose all initiative, and life be impoverished under a coercive mechanical system.

The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

Improvement begins with I.

n idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

My desire was to leave home in an organized way. Because I was still just a kid, I decided that the best course for independence was to mind my own business and make my own money. I would do any kind of work. I was not shy at all about picking up a shovel and digging.

I found out there is a production paradise in Brazil. I was able to make my second collection for less money but without sacrificing quality. More importantly, manufacturing in Brazil also fits in with my global initiative: to provide work and empowerment in a third-world country.

Every quarter, we give an award for a breakthrough idea even if it doesn't make it to market.

You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

The key to asking someone out is to not really ask. In other words, don't feel your sentence needs to end with a question mark.

It shocks, saddens and hurts me when my integrity towards Sport is questioned, especially knowing that there are very few who have taken the initiative and been successful in the development of sport in India.

If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.

You've got to nip things that can be detrimental in the bud, even if this raises a few eyebrows or invites some opposition.

Leading off an inning you never know, I could get a bunt base hit and start a rally.