Initiative Quotes

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.

~ Louis L'amour

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

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

~ Barack Obama

Don’t simply exist in this world, but grasp life’s potential by the jacket. Dare it to be all it can. Make life historical—a gripping account of accomplishment. Make life a mystery—a challenging, bold adventure. Make life heartfelt—an enduring, poetic romance. Whatever it is you make of your world, live the fairytale.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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

~ Richie Norton

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

~ John Taylor Gatto

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.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

~ Stephen Richards

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

~ Andy Warhol

In the last 10 years, we have seen a rise in selfishness: selfies, self-absorbed people, superficiality, self-degradation, apathy, and self-destruction. So I challenge all of you to take initiative to change this programming. Instead of celebrating the ego, let's flip the script and celebrate the heart. Let's put the ego and celebrity culture to sleep, and awaken the conscience. This is the battle we must all fight together to win back our humanity. To save our future and our children.

~ Suzy Kassem

If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn child, then that will be at least a small intellectual advance. In time, perhaps, we may even learn to toddle.

~ Salman Rushdie

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

~ Zig Ziglar

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

~ T. Jay Taylor

The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to rule over the earth; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

~ Winston S. Churchill

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

~ Gary Chapman

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

~ Angie Morgan

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!

~ William Hutchison Murray

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

~ Amelia Earhart

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.

~ Sydney Smith

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

~ Jonathan V. Last

You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves and of the world.

~ Hanif Kureishi

It is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your dreams can change the environment which was not conducive for it at first! However it is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.

~ Grace Murray Hopper

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

~ Sarah Dessen

If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.

~ Richard Rohr

Initiative + Progress = Success.

~ Miena Fiagome

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

~ Ashok Kallarakkal

There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God....Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize harmony and as the spiritual reality and discord as the material unreality. Chapter VII pp. 224 and 228 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

~ Mary Baker Eddy

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

~ Edward Rickenbacker

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.

~ Dorothy Dunnett

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

~ Seth Godin

The most difficult thing about writing, is writing the first line.

~ Amit Kalantri

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

~ Robert Radcliffe

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

~ Orrin Woodward

Despite the many occasions when its characters feel frustrated before the weight of circumstances, and despite blaming their feeling of impotence on daiva, 'fate', moral autonomy shines through in the epic. Because they have some freedom to choose they can be praised when they follow dharma or blamed when they follow adharma. At the moment of making a decision they become conscious of their freedom, and it is this perception of autonomy that gives them the ability to lead authentic moral lives.

~ Gurcharan Das

The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.

~ Ortega Y Gasset José

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

~ George Eliot