31 Inspiring Quotes about
A lot of people never use their initiative because no one told them to.
(Banksy)
Ability and readiness to take action independently, without suggestion from others
…opportunities do not come to those who wait. They are captured by those who attack.
(William Danforth)
…if you need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm.
(Audrey Hepburn)
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
(Arthur Ashe)
Good today beats perfect someday.
(Scott Anderson)
Don’t let the grand blind you to the small. Little things count.
(Scott Anderson)
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
(Orison Swett Marden)
Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.
(Amelia Earhart)
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it
(Jonathan Winters)
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
(Victor Hugo)
Genius is initiative on fire.
(Holbrook Jackson)
Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.
(Orlando Aloysius Battista)
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
(Milton Berle)
Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
(Bo Bennett)
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.
(William J. H. Boetcker)
An idea is worthless unless you use it.
(John Maxwell)
You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
(Edwin Louis Cole)
Take stands, take risks, take responsibility.
(Muriel Siebert)
Successful people keep moving.
(Conrad Hilton)
Your ship will never come in if you don’t send any out.
(Susan C. Young)
What you do today can change all the tomorrows of your life.
(Zig Ziglar)
Being willing is not enough; we must do.
(Leonardo da Vinci)
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
(Robert Bresson)
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Bureaucracy destroys initiative.
(Frank Herbert)
Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
(Nolan Bushnell)
Good today beats perfect someday.
(Scott Anderson)
Daily Decisions Determine Destiny.
(Gretchen K. Ulmer)
Stop talking. Start doing.
(Walt Disney)
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
(Abraham Lincoln)
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
(Zig Ziglar)
