Quotes About Initiative

Be relentless "The world responds to action, and not much else." — Scott Adams

Many smart people can recognize when there is a problem, but few expend the energy to find a solution, and then summon the courage to do it.

His is the eternal decree, his is the love that drew salvation's plan, his is the initiative in sending the Son, his is the power that raised Christ from the dead and put all things under his feet. "To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!" (Eph. 3:21 NIV).

The politics of death is bureaucracy, routine, rules, status quo. The politics of life is personal initiative, creativity, flair, dash, a little daring. The politics of death is calculation, prudence, measured gestures. The politics of life is experience, spontaneity, grace, directness. The politics of death is fear of youth. The politics of life is to trust the young to their own experiences.

A good plan violently executed today is better than a perfect plan executed tomorrow." – GEORGE PATTON

It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.

If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone else's new realty. Which eliminates time, space, motion, and friction.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

The era of empty talk is over. Now is the time for action.

Critics hang around and wait for others to make mistakes. But the real doers of the world have not time for criticizing others. They are too busy doing, making mistakes, improving, making progress.

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances.

We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

You just have to take the first step , you don't have to see the whole staircase.

Take the first step. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

to swim, "Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim." When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. People have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern

When I hear, "People aren't ready," that's like telling a person who is trying to swim, "Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim." When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water.

A constant flow of thoughts expressed by other people can stop and deaden your own thought and your own initiative…. That is why constant learning softens your brain…. Stopping the creation of your own thoughts to give room for the thoughts from other books reminds me of Shakespeare's remark about his contemporaries who sold their land in order to see other countries.

And he let me go ahead.

Paul O'Neill, the former secretary of the Treasury and CEO of the aluminum giant Alcoa, agreed to take over as head of a regional health care initiative in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And he made solving the problem of hospital infections one of his top priorities.

To succeed, however, it must be done early.

When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.