Quotes About Initiative

To move the world we must move ourselves.

Finally, someone has to make a start. We only said and wrote what many people think. They just don't dare to express it.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.

The key to project success is being proactive. Instead of waiting for others to tell you what to do,

There are three kinds of people," he wrote later, "those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Don't wait for the opportunity, create it.

Be the solution, not the problem.

If you really want something in this world,' said Olga simply, 'you'll never get it by sitting down and waiting. But if you go out and do things there's no knowing where you'll end up.

Julie, with two disappointing years of fencing lessons in his recent past, had the advantage of knowing what to do with a sword if you actually held one, while Titus had the advantage that he always would have: The whole thing was his idea. He was the one causing things to happen, driving them, taking them seriously long enough and intensely enough—and in public—to make them somehow be.

And Kelly was beginning to see that Sarah didn't let anything stop her, she just went and did it. This whole attitude of not letting other people stop you, of believing that you could do what you wanted, was something she found herself imitating.

Entrepreneurship is, first of all, the power to create.

You've got ten fingers,' said Morris. 'Why not stick them in ten pies?

Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Would-be green capitalism is nothing but a publicity stunt, a label for the purpose of selling a commodity, or - in the best of cases - a local initiative equivalent to a drop of water on the arid soil of the capitalist desert.

At one point he turned to Christie and said, "Chris, you and I are so smart that we can leave the victory party two hours early and do the transition ourselves.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain - do something to make more money yourself.

You can't sit around and do nothing, you have to carry on.

My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability. If the option is for me to make a play when I have to, I will. Or I'll put myself in the best situation to do so.

Plainly something had to be done and it was up to Beezus to do it.

I don't expect politicians to solve anybody's problems. We've got to take the world by the horns and solve our own problems. The world owes us nothing, each and every one of us, the world owes us not one single thing. Politicians or whoever.

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i know that every journey begins with a first step.