Quotes About Initiative

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Make in India' is a LION's step! This initiative on one hand, will increase manufacturing growth, and at the same time, will directly benefit the youth of the nation in the form of employment.

There's no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something.

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way.

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Action is the only way to make progress. Take action now; don't wait for a convenient time. It can't be overemphasized.

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

Soon is not as good as now.

In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time.

The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings.

I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.

Hope doesn't mean anything... Action's the only thing that counts.