Initiative Quotes

You create opportunities by performing, not complaining

— Muriel Siebert

Take stands, take risks, take responsibility.

— Muriel Siebert

“If being brave were easy, more people would be.”

— Susan C. Young

When you are leading, you have to take initiative.

— Michael Hyatt

The best legislative initiative - is the absence of one.

— Pavel Durov

The 9/11 terrorist attack was a faith-based initiative.

— Dan Barker

“It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.”

— Grace Murray Hopper

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

— Elbert Hubbard

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

— Tom Clancy

Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.

— Napoleon Hill

Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.

— Darren Rowse

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

— Jesse Jackson

God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.

— John Powell

Courage and initiative come when you understand your purpose in life.

— John C. Maxwell

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.

— Mario Monti

Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

— Carl Hiaasen

“It’s not bravery unless you are doing something which causes you to feel afraid. Unless there is some degree of fear or…

— Susan C. Young

Hip Hop Sisters is going strong. Our signature initiative is #EducateOurMen, whereby we have the pleasure, the enjoyment, as well as having…

— MC Lyte

Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative…

— P. J. O'Rourke

It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile…

— Stephen Harper

If we succeed in learning more about how to expand program innovations from pilot projects so that they have broader program impact,…

— Ruth Simmons

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

— Dhirubhai Ambani

I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork…

— Naomi Klein

“Rather than being green with envy, realize that a dramatic difference between the “haves” and “have-nots” is the “do” and “do-nots.” If…

— Susan C. Young

Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures…

— Wesley L Duewel

Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent…

— William Nordhaus

I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this…

— Marc Benioff

“I spend a great deal of time on airplanes traveling from one speaking engagement to the next. There have been times when…

— Susan C. Young

Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa…

— Stephen Harper

Some of the younger people afford hope for the future. I am not opposed to reform initiatives. For example, if you can…

— Noam Chomsky

Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence…

— Syama Prasad Mukherjee

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all…

— Paul Ryan

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children…

— Ronald Reagan

Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them…

— Amelia Earhart

“Take the initiative to introduce yourself. One morning I was sitting on a bike in a spinning class at my gym. There…

— Susan C. Young

It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of…

— Giovanna Cau

We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a…

— Herbert V. Prochnow

many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless…

— Mary Parker Follett

Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his…

— B. C. Forbes

What Habitat does is much more than just sheltering people. It’s what it does for people on the inside. It’s that intangible…

— Millard Fuller