Quotes About Initiative

The only moment you won't even see an opportunity, is when you try nothing.

Throw the dice not a towel.

I love going out and doing new things.

Why are we always looking for someone else to save us instead of trying to save ourselves?

Why? Why are we always looking for someone else to save us instead of trying to save ourselves?

This is no time for inactivity or despair. Off with the mourning clothes. Take some chances; take the initiative. You never know what might happen. You might have a part in bringing Christ to the world. Grace

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Humans given no incentive to do more . . . generally will not.

I like clever people. Dull ones irritate me, especially those who expect to be told what to do, and if they are not told, do nothing, even when something that needs doing is right in front of them.

The greatest journeys all start with a single step.

THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM

The Best Defense is a Good Offense

One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor.

The problem of political theory is how to combine that degree of individual initiative which is necessary for progress, with the degree of social cohesion which is necessary for survival.

In our own day, there has been too much of a tendency towards authority, and too little care for the preservation of initiative. Men in control of vast organisations have tended to be too abstract in their outlook, to forget what actual human beings are like, and to try to fit men to systems rather than systems to men.

Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.

Not only teachers, but all commonplace persons in authority, desire in their subordinates that kind of uniformity which makes their actions easily predictable and never inconvenient. The result is that they crush initiative and individuality when they can, and when they cannot, they quarrel with it.

As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and juvenile justice; I'd created what would become San Antonio's largest book drive and literacy campaign.

Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements.

To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.

If you want to change things, it requires bravery.

If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.

Sometimes men tend to get a little shy, so if the woman wants to make the first move, go ahead!