The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active. — Octavia Spencer
If you wait for others to initiate change you automatically become a follower. — Peyton Manning
Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart,
a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference. — Mac Anderson
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things. — Stephen Covey
Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead. — Wilma Mankiller
Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it. — Mao Zedong
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. — Clint Eastwood
the best way to get something done is to begin. — Unknown
If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. — Travis Rice
Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need.
You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing — Carlos Ghosn
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own. — Stephen Covey
Every change begins with a vision and a decision to take action. — David Bornstein
'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities. — Anthony Giddens
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. — Leonardo da Vinci
Short Taking Initiative Quotes
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses. — John C. Maxwell
You create your opportunities by asking for them. — Patty Hansen
I'd like to be known for stepping up, and encouraging others to do the same. — Leigh Anne Tuohy
Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
You need to be a person who makes things happen. — Jim Lovell
If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go. — John Bartholomew Gough
You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you. — Clive Davis
actions speak louder than words — Becca Fitzpatrick
Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you. — Salma Hayek
Action expresses priorities. — Charles A. Garfield
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Self Initiative Quotes
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life. — Louise Hay
Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help. — Mahatma Gandhi
Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence and drive, but equality of opportunity for all, genuine freedom for self-fulfilment, in which all men irrespective of caste or creed may share. — Syama Prasad Mukherjee
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated — Dalai Lama
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
'All the gods are one god and all the goddesses are one goddess, and there is one initiator.' The one initiator is one's own high self, with which the personality becomes more and more integrated as the path of spiritual evolution is followed. — Doreen Valiente
I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm. — Tom Waits
I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination. — Joseph Lowery
Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment. — Stephen Covey
No Initiative Quotes
I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions. — Milarepa
As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. — Eckhart Tolle
No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation — David Spangler
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. — Charles Barkley
Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programs between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offense. — Maajid Nawaz
Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.
A Cleaner makes decisions because there’s no chance in the world he’s going to let anyone else make a decision for him. — Tim Grover
You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge. — James Mattis
All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury. There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury. — Charlie Cox
You create opportunities by performing, not complaining — Muriel Siebert
Initiative Quotes
During my term in AU, I will initiate an organised compensation claim for Africa and I will fight for a greater voice for Africa in the United Nations Security Council. If they (Western nations) do not want to live with us fairly, it is our planet and they can go to other planet. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research. — Jean Piaget
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now. — Marcel Proust
Ho who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part. — Nadia Boulanger
At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order. — Augustus
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. — Abraham Lincoln
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair. — William James
The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority. — W. Edwards Deming
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank. — Bertolt Brecht
Experiencing the world through Endless secondhand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. — Travis Rice
Originality is taking the road less traveled. Championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but ultimately make things better. But it doesn’t stop there: Originals are people who take the initiative to make their visions a reality. — Adam Grant
Learn to go first. Introduce yourself. Ask them out. Host the event. Voice an idea. Tell people what you want. You’ll face more rejections when things go wrong, but you’ll get all of the credit when things go right. The world rewards those who go first because so few people do. — Mark Manson
Successful witnessing is taking the initiative to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God. — Bill Bright
Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality. — Adam Grant
When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity. — T. D. Jakes
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation. — Christopher McCandless
State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management. — Benito Mussolini
People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for 'sharing,' or 'initiating a dialogue,' or 'taking the time to explain this very important issue.' — Tucker Carlson
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. — Chris Evert
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. — Chris Evert Lloyd
If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go. — Gabriel Marcel
You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative. — Napoleon Hill
Once I finally stepped on the moon, no matter what was to come of the next three days - or the rest of my life - nobody could take those steps from me. People ask how long will they be there, and I say forever, however long forever is, like my daughter’s initials that I scribbled in the sand [TDC for Tracy Dawn Cernan]. — Gene Cernan
It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity. — Barbara Lee
I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real boots on the ground approach to helping veterans in need. — Max Martini
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. — Cathy Hopkins
The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions. — Georgy Zhukov
Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. — Muhammad Yunus
We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us. — Dion Fortune
Learning first occurs as a part of emotional interactions; it involves the split-second initiatives that children take as they try to engage other people,interact with them communicate and reason with them. — Stanley Greenspan
I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at. — Jensen Ackles
Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. Enthusiasm is natural; it is being alive, taking the initiative, seeing the importance of what you do, giving it dignity and making what you do important to yourself and to others. — Gordon Parks
Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is to accomplish God's will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won. — Wesley L Duewel
The accent in the counter attack style of play lays on the defensive team
function, with the emphasis being on the defender's own half of the field
and letting the opponents keep the initiative of the game. This is to take
advantage of the space behind their defense for the buildup and the attack. — Rinus Michels
Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It is not only with the brain and with the mind that the initiate must take Freemasonry but also with the heart. — Carl H. Claudy
Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others. — Stephen Covey
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life? — Tony Robbins
What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life? — Tony Robbins
If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Successful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by disadvantage and have the ability to turn disadvantage to good effect. They are people who seize opportunity and take risks. Leadership then seems to be a matter of personality and character. — John Viney
When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going. — Brian Tracy
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting. — Tony Robbins
Take stands, take risks, take responsibility. — Muriel Siebert
When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances. — Stephen Covey
The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive. — Miyamoto Musashi
The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own. — Alistair Begg
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. — Boris Spassky
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is. — Mitt Romney
It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success. — Roger Wicker
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