Successful people are always thinking about what they can do to move to the next level. Initiative is the drive to do… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live.… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Don’t simply exist in this world, but grasp life’s potential by the jacket. Dare it to be all it can. Make life… — Richelle Goodrich Copy Share Image
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
People of all kinds are waking up. Even people passionate for Obama realize even that knight on a white horse isn't enough… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
I'm a footballing romantic just like Johan Cruyff. We like football that is attractive, attacking and easy on the eye. When you… — Xavi Copy Share Image
There are three possible ways to react to right-wing extremist parties. The first is to act as though they don't exist and… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
Some years ago our Japanese counterparts asked us to resume the discussions of the issue and so we did meeting them halfway.… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of giving Eligible a feminist flavor. While I do think that in Pride and Prejudice, Liz Bennet is… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Introduce Yourself. Being confident and outgoing will empower you to approach new people who might be reluctant to take the first step.… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only… — Ortega y Gasset José Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
You frequently hear the phrase "culture eats strategy for lunch!" This is something that they don't teach you in school and few… — James Merlino Copy Share Image
Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation -… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We didn't hear a word about the Clinton Global Initiative. We didn't hear a word about all the masterful, wonderful things they've… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Confuse the enemy. Keep him in the dark on your intentions. Sometimes what seems a victory isn't really a victory and sometimes… — Vo Nguyen Giap Copy Share Image
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Our president's latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi Arabia and beg King Abdullah to give us a little relief on… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the… — John Yu Copy Share Image
The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His… — Anil Ambani Copy Share Image
A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To… — Judith Herrin Copy Share Image
Senator Lugar will also travel to Libya for official meetings as a part of the president's initiative to move toward more normal… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image