Quotes About Initiative

we need to do more than just whine about that. We need to course-correct.

El efecto práctico de esta creencia es el socialismo (que Hayek identifica con la planificación económica y el dirigismo estatista), un sistema que, para imponerse, necesita la abolición de la libertad, de la propiedad privada, del respeto de los contratos, de la independencia de la justicia y la limitación de la libre iniciativa individual.

Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming. . . . These people are waiting for a bus on a street where no busses pass. . . . They can end up waiting forever. And that is what most people do. BRIAN TRACY   

I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.

There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what s/he is told to do. And the other is the person who does no more than s/he is told to do. - Andrew Carnegie

Don't wait for the perfect opportunity. Just take an opportunity and make it as perfect as you can.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

Don't ask the world to change....you change first.

The two of them might have met on that high place deliberately for public celebration of some rite or sacrifice. At first neither said a word. That seemed an age. At last Dr Trelawney took the initiative. Raising his right arm slightly, he spoke in a low clear voice, almost in the accents of one whose very perfect enunciation indicates that English is not his native tongue.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action." —Thomas Henry Huxley

It is only the first step that is difficult.

The first step to this formula is to know your outcome, that is, to define precisely what you want. The second step is to take action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. —MARK TWAIN

Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.

What could she do with a man who had no ideas of his own as to what he ought to do with himself?

all of the good-intentioners who wanted to 'do something for the common people' were insignificant, because the 'common people' were able to do things for themselves, and highly likely to, as soon as they learned the fact.

Don't wait for good things to happen. Do whatever you can, wherever, and however. You will be surprised when good things follow.

If you want to get ahead, you have to create your own chances. You have to carve out your own opportunities.

Stop explaining how impossible it is, stop making endless excuses, stop faffing around…and just do it!

When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.

Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother