Quotes About Initiative

Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

There are things one must do for oneself.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.

I believe you have to make things happen.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can't be passive.

I was a driver and a racer. The difference between drivers, who can be great World Champions, and racers, who are also World Champions, is that racers don't wait for things to happen: they make things happen.

Really, the scheme is not going to win you a possession or even a game. You have to burn some calories and make some things happen.

Don't think, just do.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

The activist is not the person who says the river is dirty. The activist is the person who cleans up the river

I have found, though, that all the evidence shows that Douglas's conduct at the time, however impulsive and ill-advised, was honourable and courageous in a degree scarcely to be expected of a young man of twenty-four, faced with a tragic and dangerous situation and having only his own initiative, his own sense of loyalty, his own idea of right and wrong, to guide him. The selfish youth who goaded Wilde to his doom, and afterwards abandoned him is an artfully created myth.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

Surely someone would do something. Then I realized: what if I were that someone?

You can't hit if you don't swing!

Be a builder of your own app

man following reason in all things combines relaxation with initiative, spark with composure.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.