Quotes about Initiative

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for the others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

What displeased Corporal Whitcomb most about the chaplain, apart from the fact that the chaplain believed in God, was his lack of initiative and aggressiveness.

If something is wrong in your life, don't spend the rest of your days feeling bad about it… do something about it!

We don't wait for things to happen to us; we happen to things.

As a Spirit-filled believer, you need to take the initiative to treat people the way you want to be treated, not the way they treat you.

In a society that knows about initiative and self-actualization and countless other things, the capacity to lament the death of the old world is nearly lost. In a society strong on self-congratulation, the capacity to receive in doxology the new world being given is nearly lost.

You will never get what you don't ask for. You can't find what you aren't looking for. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.