Initiative Quotes

Initiative Quote of the day

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must, ' The youth whispers, 'I can.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

It’s not bravery unless you are doing something which causes you to feel afraid. Unless there is some degree of fear or apprehension involved, bravery is not even needed.

Being brave requires taking deliberate action and doing something new that stretches you beyond your comfort zone.

Any time you put yourself on the line, you risk (and maybe fear) failing, falling, being embarrassed, or looking stupid—none of which are comfortable.

If being brave were easy, more people would be.

Being brave is not for the light-hearted. Bravery takes fortitude—the very act of bravery prevents anyone from knowing you were ever afraid in the first place.

The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.

Take action and be brave Theodor for it is fear and inaction that kills.

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

You may start small but don't stay small

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

Initiative + Progress = Success.

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.

Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.

It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

There is no " i " in team. But there are two in motivation.

If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want.

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

And 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.

Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more.

The best way to predict future is to create it." Abraham Lincoln

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

I was brought up, ' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.

Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end.

Any goal, no matter what size, can be achieved if it is tackled with courage, initiative, perseverance, and integrity.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

It is what it is because you let it be so.

Begin to take the initiative when you want to meet someone new. Be the one who steps forward first. Simply say hello and begin a conversation.