Quotes About Initiative

George Bernard Shaw said that most people who fail complain that they are the victims of circumstances. Those who get on in this world, he said, are those who go out and look for the right circumstances. And if they can't find them they make their own.

to duck responsibility. He or she might say this: The policy will be implemented … The leader, on the other hand, would say this: Let's do it!

The only thing worse than a bad idea that gets implemented is a good one that is never broached.

As writer Jack London put it: "You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club!

Failing to act is action, and though there are a lot of people talking, they are not taking action.

You can't lead from behind

But it is always God who takes the initiative and who surprises us with his presence, as God did with Mary. When

Infinite players do not oppose the actions of others, but initiate actions of their own in such a way that others will respond by initiating their own.

the world won't come to me,' he used to say, 'so I must go to it'—

Il mondo non mi verrà incontro, perciò devo andargli incontro io.

After a quarter of a century in politics, Roosevelt observed, he had found that change was realized by "men who take the next step; not those who theorize about the 200th step.

According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.

when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are

Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination.

Think for yourselves for a change. You've been pedlars: go and be merchants. You've been mercenaries: go and find something of your own to defend. You've finished teething and there's the world: crack it open if you can.

habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death." Katherine

One has to dare if one wants to get anywhere,' said Mrs. Bantry.

Hence King's Messengers and all that. In medieval days you gave a fellow a signet ring as a sort of open sesame. 'The King's Ring! Pass, my lord!' And usually it was the other fellow who had stolen it. I always wonder why some bright lad never hit on the expedient of copying the ring—making a dozen or so, and selling them at a hundred ducats apiece. They seem to have had no initiative in the Middle Ages.

That was ever so kind of you, Mrs. Bantry. I must say I wouldn't have dared myself." "One has to dare if one wants to get anywhere," said Mrs. Bantry.

Only a fool would sit on the sidelines hoping for something worthy of mention to happen to them

Unii vor ca un lucru sa se intample. Altii isi doresc ca lucrul sa se intample. Iar altii il fac sa se intample.

I believe fully that if you want to do something, you just go do it. You can sit around, think about it, waiting until things are perfect, wringing your hands, dithering and hesitating and slowly twisting your panties into a perfect little fisherman's knot. Or you can get up off your lazy fucking ass and do something. What's the worst that can happen?

Better lite a candle than complain about the darkness