Quotes About Initiative

Der Augenblick muß es ergeben." "Wenn aber kein solcher Augenblick kommt?" "So führe ich ihn herbei.

I will either find a way, or make one.

I don't want any help, she said. I want someone to think ahead the way I have to and to do it without me having to ask.

He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.

The rumble starts today. Right here, right now. Time to be gutsy as hell.

As one goes through in life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Donde haya un árbol que plantar, plántalo tú. Donde haya un error que enmendar, enmiéndalo tú. Donde haya un esfuerzo que todos esquivan, hazlo tú. Sé tú el que aparta la piedra del camino.

You can either be a bystander who lives his life in reaction to the decisions that others make, or you can be the leader who is making those decisions.

Courage comes with action.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.

How is it that in their personal lives, employees can be trusted to buy houses and cars, but at work can't requisition a $ 300 office chair without a manager's approval? If we thought about it for a minute, we'd realize this is stupid. Autonomy correlates with initiative and innovation. Shrink an individual's freedom and you shrink their enthusiasm and creativity.

Initiative, creativity, and valor can't be commanded.

These higher-order capabilities are the products of passion, of a commitment to something that inspires us, something outside ourselves that needs and deserves the best of who we are. Initiative, creativity, and valor can't be commanded. They are gifts. Every employee gets to decide, "Do I bring these gifts to work today, or not?" and as the Gallup data suggests, the answer is usually "no" and, sometimes, "hell, no.

it is just time to "shut up, get up, and giddy up.

Big thoughts go nowhere without bold action.

First attempt do not need to be good. First attempt is to build momentum.

find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.

Rules for making the world: 1. Stand up & do the thing you see needs doing. 2. That's it. (If it was easy, we'd be having a different conversation.) —Action Plan

If there is no wind, start rowing.

But whenever Heather felt uncertain about whether to do something, she did it. She had decided long ago that you never learn anything by holding back.

The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.