Quotes about Initiative
Breaking down a closed door is quicker than waiting for someone to answer it.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
First priority becomes first action.
- Charles Stanley
There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.
- Wendell Berry
Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
- Seth Godin
Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
- Seth Godin
Generally speaking we are in God's will whenever we are leading the kind of life he wants for us. And that leaves a lot of room for initiative on our part, which is essential: our individual initiatives are central to his will for us.
- Dallas Willard
Human initiative is not canceled by God redeeming us; it is heightened by immersion in the flow of God's life.
- Dallas Willard
But responsibility and initiative are the heart of our relationship with God. We are not robots, and he does not work with robots.
- Dallas Willard
One must begin in one's own life the private solutions that can only in turn become public solutions.
- Wendell Berry
Every advance begins in a small way and with the individual.
- Henry Ford
I am always for the man who wishes to work.
- Abraham Lincoln