Quotes About Initiative

Leaders grasp nettles.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

If I want to make the first move, I want to go after something in my life, I should be able to do that without shame, guilt, or blame.

Guys need to know when to take charge.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

The choice to love is the choice to take initiative. It is the choice to do or say something for the other person's benefit, something that would help make them a better person, something that would enrich their lives or make life more meaningful for them.

Love is a choice. And either partner can start the process today.

Your next step is simple. You are the first domino.

Y)ou've got to do more than what's expected if you want to get ahead.

Mature masculinity does not have to initiate every action, but feels the responsibility to provide a general pattern of initiative.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want. And if they can't find them, make them.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

As pessoas estão sempre culpando as circunstâncias pelo que elas são. Eu não acredito em circunstâncias. Os indivíduos que progridem neste mundo são aqueles que se mexem e procuram as circunstâncias que querem, e, se não conseguem encontrá-las, eles as criam.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find. them, make them

They don't care primarily about the lawsuits themselves. They care about getting rid of environmental, consumer, and worker protections in general. And they care about defunding the Democratic Party. That is what a strategic initiative is.

On the progressive side, investment in renewable energy is a multifaceted strategic initiative for better environmental policy, increased security, job creation, Third World development, and economic stimulation.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

The world is divided into three types of people in business: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.