Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Initiative Quotes
ActionDriveHuman NatureInitiative Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
ActionAdaptabilityCourageInitiative Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
InitiativePreventionProactivityVigilance When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
ActionGoalInitiativePlanning It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
ForgivenessInitiativeLetting GoRenewal Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
ConsequenceInactionInitiative My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.
ConfidenceInitiativeLearningProblem Solving When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
InitiativeJudgmentLeadershipProactivity It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
CourageInitiativeLeadershipPerseverance You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
ActionChangeEffortInitiativeRevolution The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
CourageInitiativeProductivityStrategic Thinking If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
CollaborationCourageDeterminationInitiativeOvercoming Obstacles I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.
ActionEffortInitiative Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
ChangeGrowthInitiativeProgressStagnation There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
CommitmentImprovementInitiative I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.
ActionInitiativeOpportunity Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
ActionCourageHopeInitiativeMental Health I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, 'What should I do?' And I say: 'Act. Do something.' Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.
BeliefCreativityHuman PotentialInitiativeInnovation That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
CareerEducationInitiativeSkills If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.
EffortHustleInitiative Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
InitiativeOpportunityProactivityResponsibility It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
InitiativePurposeSelf RelianceTalent I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt - you know, I had to go out and do them.
ActionDeterminationGoal SettingInitiativePlanning Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
ChangeEmpowermentInitiative Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
CoordinationDeceptionExecutionInitiativeStrategy Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
