Initiative Quotes - Page 2

• You create opportunities by performing, not complaining

  Muriel Siebert

  Positive, Opportunity, Complaining

  Muriel Siebert, Aimee Lee Ball (2002). “Changing the Rules: Adventures of a Wall Street Maverick”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Good Life, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 16, 2017

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• A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

  Banksy

  Independent, People, Use

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• 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

  People, Choices, Principles

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Ya know it's funny, what's happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends, now virtual. And, anything you could ever wanna know is just a click away. Experiencing the world through second hand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self-discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

  Travis Rice

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• Never relinquish the initiative.

  Charles de Gaulle

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• 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

  Character, People, Independence

  Abraham Lincoln, Jack Stevenson (2017). “Abraham Lincoln: 100 Influential Quotes of My Life”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Moving, Successful, People

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• A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Life, Men, Action

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• You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational Life, Greatness, Sea

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• What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Simple, Depth

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• Initiative is at the heart of manhood

  Dennis Rainey

  Heart, Manhood

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• An idea is worthless unless you use it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Ideas, Use, Worthless

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• Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Conservative, Language, Social

  Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.74, Columbia University Press

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• No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Thinking, Gains

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• Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Spring, Self, Individual

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• Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

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• The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Responsibility

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• Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it

  Sumner Redstone

  Positive, Opportunity, Doe

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• I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Leadership, Persistence

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Commitment, Political

  "The Scottish Himalaya Expedition". Book by W. H. Murray, 1951.

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• God helps those who help themselves.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Bible, God

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.29, The Way to Wealth

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• The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

  Harry Browne

  Important, Can Do, Concentrating

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• 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

  Love, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from May 31, 2016

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• Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

  Anna Pavlova

  Success, Hard Work, Individual

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