Initiative Quotes - Page 3

• You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

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• In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared.

  Charlie Morton

  Preparation, Moments, Crisis

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• One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

  Donald Johanson

  Want, Achieve

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• Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.

  Napoleon Hill

  Essentials, Wagon Wheels, Wagons

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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• One today is worth two tomorrows.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• Seizing the initiative can make all the difference between winning and loosing.

  Thomas M. Davis

  Success, Winning, Differences

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• OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

  Dave Douglas

  Culture, Meetings, Advancing

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• The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Moving, Commitment, Misunderstood

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• I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.

  Louise Hay

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Mar 29, 2015

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• Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Imagination, Chess

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• 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

  Long, Waiting, Miracle

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• You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Courage, Freedom

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J.H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• You can fall, but you can rise also.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Happiness, Moving On, Success

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• We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

  Scott Adams

  Keys, Optimization

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• A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.

  James Marcus Bach

  Hero, Problem, Ambiguous

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• Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Leadership, Difficult

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.86, Penguin

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• Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Judgement, Substitutes, Organisation

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• It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

  Isaac Asimov

  Business, Swings, Degrees

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• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

  Chris Evert

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sports

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• Creativity is, quite simply, a genuine interest combined with initiative.

  Scott Belsky

  Creativity, Genuine, Interest

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• What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression
  of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Taken, Humble, Technology

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1973). “Earth, Inc.”, p.20, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

  W. H. Murray

  Commitment, Misunderstood, Genius

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Commitment, Ideas

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• Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.

  Steven Pressfield

  Moving, Ignorance, Commitment

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