Quotes About Initiative

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

A date took place in the public sphere, away from home. It involved money, because when you moved from drinking mother's lemonade on the front porch to buying Cokes at a restaurant, someone had to pay. And because in the context of women's second-class economic status, the boy would have to pay, a girl could not ask a boy to take her out. The initiative thus shifted from the girl and her family to the boy.

Unlike Paul Newman, who seems to think that salad dressing is the cure-all for America's ills, I'm a man of action.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.

Strap it on whenever it's possible.

It is better to Leap than to Sleep

If you want things to change, then you have to change them.

If it has to be it's up to me.

We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields

When you decide - follow it up with action as spontaneously as possible if not sooner because the quicker you reciprocate with the decision the sooner you shall see results.

Don't wait for things to happen. Make them happen.

What's the good of being alive if you don't do anything?

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Es schadet nie, sich die Hände schmutzig zu machen, wenn man am Angfang steht

You cannot transform the world by wishful thinking -- you must do something about it.

However, try as he might, nothing Nathaniel summoned had the combination of initiative, power, and obedience that he required. More than once, in fact, he was surprised to find himself thinking almost wistfully of his first servant. But he had resolved not to summon Bartimeaus again.

There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

T]here are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

His decision to break off, however, left the critical ground between South Mountain and Hagerstown firmly in Confederate hands, meaning that Lee's army would be able to concentrate there. In this, Kilpatrick inexplicably cost the Army of the Potomac the initiative that it never could regain.

Had Kilpatrick shown some initiative and sent a larger force in pursuit, he might have bagged the entire command while the exhausted column was strung out across the Pennsylvania country side. Stuart was fortunate his adversary was not determined to fight a decisive battle with him.

one of the most powerful definitions of leadership: "Leadership is taking the initiative for the benefit of others.