Quotes About Initiative

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

When I announced my Strong Start, Strong Finish education initiative, I made clear my desire to give Alabamians the best opportunities possible to obtain the skills necessary to be competitive in the workforce.

People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn't help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.

There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happens, and people who wonder what happened.

One of the central planks of China's stated plan for world domination is their Belt and Road Initiative, which makes countries around the world dependent on China for vital infrastructure.

Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.

Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.

There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

It had been foolish of Dothaw to underestimate Vyell's intiative, but many men looked at his size and the beauty of his face and assumed that there could be nothing but witless amiability behind such a facade, an assumption which Vyell was not above fostering.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

Self-motivated people thrive when granted independence.

Anyone can criticize or accept praise, but initiating a positive exchange is a hallmark of a difference maker.

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark, or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

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