Quotes about Initiative

When you stop relying on others or blaming others or waiting on others to go kill something and bring it back for you to eat, you realize you have to go hunt and kill for yourself. You don't complain about what you lack or let setbacks get in the way of finding a way to make your dreams happen. You just go do it.

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.

I think that it's a sin to sit down and let your life go, without making a try for it.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or time. We are the ones we've been waiting for change we seek.

Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her through or around these challenges, and I'll show you supreme power of choice.