Quotes About Initiative

Go and take what you want from life, Arnufo liked to counsel him. Don't wait for it to hand you something. Things given away freely are given away for a reason—because no one else wants them.

He had vowed then to find a life that meant something, rather than waiting around for life to find him.

It seems they are more open to responding to invitations than we are to making invitations.

There is a talent in finding the right information at the right time, a happiness in pleasing someone else. Love is the best teacher in this journey. It is simple: you take the initiative and throw the dice. /The Invitation

It had never occurred to me that I could do something without permission. 'May I' was a way of life for a girl like me.

Soy un demócrata que cree en la gente, en su iniciativa y en su capacidad para salir adelante sin tutelas políticas ni religiosas.

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

It was time to stop waiting, time to forget about fate and destiny It was time to act. To work. Hard. No one was going to hand him that second-to-last piece of the puzzle; he had to find it for himself.

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

I co-managed AOC's campaign alongside Vigie Ramos Rios and also was the one that managed the launch of her initial campaign in 2017.

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.

I want to take initiative; I know my game and I know what I need to do to win.

I'm not about change for the sake of change, but we should always be evaluating any initiative we're working on to see if we can do it better.

I will not start an initiative until I've spent my own money. Because if I spend my own money, people who want to get on board afterwards know that I am serious about it.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation.

Over time, demand from Registry should help support the home product expansion initiative and vice-versa.

I never had any initiative or drive to be a success in business.

With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.

Sometimes women don't take the initiative that they should.

Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.