Initiative Quotes

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.

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.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Never relinquish the initiative.

I've got a feeling that if it's so easy for you - the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.

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.

Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success

People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend makes them timorous.

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.

Make in India' is a LION's step! This initiative on one hand, will increase manufacturing growth, and at the same time, will directly benefit the youth of the nation in the form of employment.

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.

Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.

There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's part of a new initiative called, 'Operation Regret This In Five Years.'

Nobody is too important to lead the initiative you say is important.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period of initiative has ended. Do it now!

Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

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.

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.

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Purpose is not an add-on, it’s not an initiative. It is a culture change and it never finishes

Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was, after all, a faith based initiative.

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

Height gives you the initiative.