Quotes About Initiative

Your country is a constant reproach. It is rich to their poor, strong to their weak, vigorous to their idle, enterprising to their reactionaries, ingenious to their bewildered, can-do to their sit-and-wait, thrusting to their timid.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." —JOHN F. KENNEDY

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right. If nobody starts, then others cannot follow.

Failure is refusing to fight. Failure is remaining quiet and hoping someone else will fix the problem.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, _because_ it is right. If nobody starts, then others cannot follow.

A good officer was one who accepted orders and fulfilled them, even when he disagreed. But the mark of a great officer was that he also tried to innovate and offer appropriate suggestions.

If nobody changes the world, if nobody works to make it better, then we stagnate.

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

I swore that if I ever had the opportunity to publish a book again, I'd do it differently. I wasn't going to get dressed up in my new outfit and wait for someone to knock on my door and ask me about my work. I'd put on my shit-kickers and start knocking on doors myself.

Someone must lead the way.

A large part of the father's life had been spent waiting. He could not force his younger son to come home or his older son to let go of his resentments. Only they themselves could take the initiative to return.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

the man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

Jesus was the Son of God. Yet He never took the initiative to dream a dream or launch a new ministry. He lived His life in absolute dependence upon His Father. If Jesus was that dependent on the Father, then you and I should realize how ludicrous it is for us to set out on our own without any direction or guidance from the Father.

Happy, thrice happy, every one Who sees his labor well begun, And not perplexed and multiplied, By idly waiting for time and tide!

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

I remember at a very early age ringing up record labels I found in the Yellow Pages, and asking them for a record deal.

I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I always found creative ways to make money since I was pretty young kid.

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.

You make a name for yourself when you take on responsibilities and constantly solve problems