Quotes about initiative
Our great business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
We have a 'strategic' plan. It's called doing things.
Herb Kelleher
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail, sometimes with the wind, sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
This country [America] was not built by men who relied on somebody else to take care of them. It was built by men who relied on themselves, who dared to shape their own lives, who had enough courage to blaze new trails - enough confidence in themselves to take the necessary risks.
J. Ollie Edmunds
The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.
Charles M. Schwab
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
Malcolm X
Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.
Orlando Battista
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