Quotes About Initiative

And tell Denise I'll come and get her when her phone call comes through." I still didn't go. Because all of a sudden I had the greatest idea of how to show the Tarrytown kids that I was an expert at something besides bandaging legs. "We had a class newspaper last year," I told

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it.

Do not give your creative impulse to Original Substance, and then sit down and wait for results; if you do, you will never get them. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin now.

The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.

As a practitioner of hindsight I know that Grandfather was trying to do, by personal initiative and with the financial resources of a small and struggling corporation, what only the immense power of the federal government ultimately proved able to do. That does not mean he was foolish or mistaken. He was premature. His clock was set on pioneer time. He met trains that had not yet arrived, he waited on platforms that hadn't yet been built, beside tracks that might never be laid.

Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.

In a society that knows about initiative and self-actualization and countless other things, the capacity to lament the death of the old world is nearly lost. In a society strong on self-congratulation, the capacity to receive in doxology the new world being given is nearly lost.

I realized then, and I felt it more deeply each day, that true freedom meant nothing else than letting God operate within my soul without interference, giving preference to God's will as manifested in the promptings, inspirations, and other means he chose to communicate, rather than in acting on my own initiatives.

the result of this engagement plainly indicates that a cool-headed commander who gets into the fight first and proceeds to business has the best of the battle from the start.

Noonan observes that if you never actually do anything about a problem yourself, then you're not really questioning—you're complaining

if you never actually do anything about a problem yourself, then you're not really questioning—you're complaining.

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.

You will never get what you don't ask for. You can't find what you aren't looking for. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

empowerment can come by looking for opportunities and taking them when we can.

Do unto others before they have a chance to do unto you.

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Do something, start with your projects, dont wait for the ideal conditions they will never come, do the things however you can, that will be your success.

Antes que me llamen, yo les responderé

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. —George S. Patton

You were chosen, Noah, because you've proven that you will take action when action must be taken. You don't agonize over it, you simply decide whether action needs to be taken, and then you act on that decision.

Real men don't read directions, don't ask for directions, and never let a lack of understanding stop them

Remember, inspiration unused is merely entertainment. To get new results, you need to take new actions.

The only time you stop run out of chances is when you stop taking them