Initiative Quotes

• 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
  • Mood
  • Responsible
  • Blame

• A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

  

  Tacitus
  • Crime
  • Blessing
  • Initiative

• Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits - and she can wait infinitely.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Psychology

• What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Told
  • Initiative
  • Right Thing

• Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Success
  • Candle
  • Match

• Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • People
  • Expect
  • Initiative

• I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Like

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

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Health care
  • Initiative
  • Low

• When I was younger, I thought that everything would just come to me eventually, but now I see I have to take the initiative and practise to improve myself.

  

  Jungkook BTS
  • Myself
  • Everything
  • Would

• It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Come
  • Version
  • Initiative

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

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Control
  • Creativity

• You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

  

  Xunzi
  • Opportunity
  • Expectations
  • Initiative

• I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • War
  • Blame
  • British

• Of course, we will work towards that end. Of course, we will work to achieve this result. However, you have just mentioned the 1956 agreement, and one may recall that these negotiations were later terminated, in effect, on Japan's initiative.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Achieve
  • Agreement
  • Negotiation

• The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Thinking
  • Environment
  • Initiative

• No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Leader
  • Belief

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

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Initiative
  • Wheel

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

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Start
  • Successful People

• This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Individual
  • Doe
  • Idiocy

• That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

  

  Joan Leslie
  • Talent
  • Luck
  • Availability

• Some years ago our Japanese counterparts asked us to resume the discussions of the issue and so we did meeting them halfway. Over the passed couple of years the contacts were practically frozen on the initiative of the Japanese side, not ours. At the same time, presently our partners have expressed their eagerness to resume discussions on this issue [the Kuril Islands].

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Couple
  • Meetings
  • Discussion

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

  

  Dan Barker
  • Terrorist
  • Initiative

• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  

  Michael Foot
  • Purpose
  • Always
  • Progress

• What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.

  

  William J. H. Boetcker
  • Car
  • Ability
  • Automobile

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