Initiative Quotes

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

~ Thomas Hardy

Well, Jack, we have taken the Macedonian, and your share of the prize, if we get her in safely, may be two hundred dollars; what will you do with it?” Stephen Decatur, commanding the frigate United States, North Atlantic, near the Azores Islands, 1812.“One hundred will go to my mother, sir, and the other I shall spend on schooling.” Jack Creamer, aged ten.

~ Irvin Anthony

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

~ Robert Frost

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

~ Abraham Lincoln

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.

~ Isaac Asimov

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

~ George Soros

Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports. Those of us who did make a name for ourselves and became champions did it with our own initiative - there was no academy to back us till we reached a certain level on our own.

~ Jahangir Khan

Genius is initiative on fire.

~ Holbrook Jackson

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

~ Bo Bennett

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

~ Andy Sawford

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

~ Helene D. Gayle

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.

~ Barton Gellman