Quotes about Initiative

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.

Design your own job. If you see things in your company that need doing that aren't being done, create a new job for yourself. Come up with an excellent pitch about all the ways this will benefit the company and help them make craploads of money, and name your salary. You never know, stranger things have happened.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

Any time you can come down and score on your first drive, that's what you're trying to accomplish.

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.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

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!