Top 100 Quotes About Initiative
#1. People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.
Stephen Covey
#2. Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.
Kim Campbell
#3. I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.
Daniel Radcliffe
#4. I do think we need more cameras. We have to stay ahead of the terrorists, and I do know in New York, the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, which is based on cameras, the outstanding work that results from that.
Peter T. King
#6. Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous.
Henry Chester
#7. Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.
Guy Claxton
#8. Well, Safi was calling horse shit on that. She didn't lack initiative - she was initiative.
Susan Dennard
#9. When you are leading, you have to take initiative.
Michael Hyatt
#10. The ordinary traveler, who never goes off the beaten route and who on this beaten route is carried by others, without himself doing anything or risking anything, does not need to show much more initiative and intelligence than an express package, Roosevelt sneered.
Candice Millard
#11. Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults.
Mona Charen
#12. The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#13. Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.
Ibn Warraq
#14. The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
Harry Browne
#15. Americans have always believed that-within the law-all kinds of people should be allowed to take the initiative in all kinds of activities. And out of that pluralism has come virtually all of our creativity. Freedom is real only to the extent that there are diverse alternatives.
John W. Gardner
#16. We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.
Andrzej Wajda
#17. A large part of the father's life had been spent waiting. He could not force his younger son to come home or his older son to let go of his resentments. Only they themselves could take the initiative to return.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#18. Our Government is committed to supporting Canadian businesses as they grow, innovate and generate high-value jobs - in the West and across the country. The WINN Initiative assists western Canadian businesses in bringing innovative ideas from the test bench to the marketplace.
Michelle Rempel
#19. Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
#20. Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.
Mary Parker Follett
#21. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.
Muhammad Yunus
#22. Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.
Herbert Hoover
#23. Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success
Tim Field
#24. 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
#25. In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.
Bertrand Russell
#26. No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.
Napoleon Hill
#27. Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister.
Margaret Thatcher
#29. Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.
Dennis Rainey
#30. Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.
Abba Eban
#31. Successful witnessing is taking the initiative to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God.
Bill Bright
#32. The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state's Jewish identity. The refugees' place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.
Danny Danon
#33. Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.
David Elkind
#34. It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction.
Stephen Harper
#35. It is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.
Julian Huxley
#36. It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".
Anil Ambani
#37. The initiative to undertake your most important duty in life is often buried beneath the accumulated debris of human habits.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#38. If you are to become more sensitive, you must be willing to take a risk. Take the initiative to find a need and take action.
John C. Maxwell
#39. The new measure takes for granted having enough intellectual ability and technical know-how to do our jobs; it focuses instead on personal qualities, such as initiative and empathy, adaptability and persuasiveness.
Daniel Goleman
#40. Courage and initiative come when you understand your purpose in life.
John C. Maxwell
#41. You've got to take the initiative to play your game. Confidence makes the difference.
Chris Evert
#42. In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.
William James
#43. 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
#44. ORITAXI is initiative of Darshan Holidays, which provide Cabs Service in Bhubaneswar and Taxi Services in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. To Book a Cab, Car hiring for Pick/Drop or other travelling.
Anil Kumar
#46. He had no money to begin with. He had but little education. He had no influence. But he did have initiative, faith and the will to win.
Napoleon Hill
#47. I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.
David Steel
#48. What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.
Jean Piaget
#49. MacArthur Foundation, as part of its initiative on Digital Media and Learning, we thank Constance M. Yowell, Director
Cathy N. Davidson
#50. The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown ... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
Margaret Mead
#51. With innovation and initiative we have the potential to change the world for the better.
Sameh Elsayed
#52. The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#53. God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.
John Powell
#54. Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.
John W. Davis
#55. I've got a feeling that, if it's so easy for you, the struggle and the initiative are not as strong as they are for a person who has to struggle and therefore has more to say.
Charles Mingus
#56. Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies, public and private, will not take on the job of changing what is.
Lester Thurow
#57. We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess.
Elbert Hubbard
#58. I saw that leaders placed too much emphasis on what some call high level strategy, on intellectualizing and philosophizing, and not enough on implementation. People would agree on a project or initiative, and then nothing would come of it.
Lawrence Bossidy
#59. The 9/11 terrorist attack was a faith-based initiative.
Dan Barker
#60. Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.
James Van Fleet
#61. Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.
Sylvia Earle
#62. Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.
Napoleon Hill
#63. From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery of the novel and beautiful world awaiting every child comes self-confidence.
E. O. Wilson
#64. You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
Chris Evert
#65. At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
Barton Gellman
#66. You're the least power-hungry person I've ever met. You're also the most stubborn person I've ever met. Disrespectful. Mouthy." "You mean independent and proactive in taking initiative." "That,
Ilona Andrews
#67. Every invention begins with an original thought. You are God's original thought. You are his initiative, the fruit of his creative inspiration, his intimate design and love-dream.
Francois Du Toit
#68. 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
#69. The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.
George Soros
#70. The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
Tim Berners-Lee
#71. Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working in groups, without being unduly submerged in the group.
Byron White
#72. There's a project that I started at HHS called the Health Data Initiative. The whole idea was to take a page from what the government had done to make weather data and GPS available back in the day.
Todd Park
#73. Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?
Frank Herbert
#74. When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
Samuel Dash
#75. For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.
Dalai Lama
#76. Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces.
Dave Heineman
#77. I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real 'boots on the ground' approach to helping veterans in need.
Max Martini
#78. INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting.
Adolph Malan
#79. Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do.
Keith Rabois
#80. America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.
Mohamed El-Erian
#81. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
William J.H. Boetcker
#82. I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.
Jack Welch
#83. More than ever I find myself in the hands of God. This (illness) is what I have wanted all my life from my youth. But now there is a difference; the initiative is entirely with God. It is indeed a profound spiritual experience to know and feel myself so totally in God's hands.
Pedro Arrupe
#84. Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements.
Lord Robertson
#85. Let's start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.
T. Colin Campbell
#86. Tell me what to do, not how to do it.' Decentralize command and allow subordinates to operate freely within the framework of the commander's intent. Train them as a team. Develop trust, loyalty, initiative.
Nathaniel Fick
#87. Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order.
Kofi Annan
#88. Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
Bertolt Brecht
#89. The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
Claude Bernard
#90. I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.
Mikhail Tal
#91. We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#92. The organization does not have to be at the mercy of the environment; it can take the initiative to accomplish the shared values and purposes of the individuals involved.
Stephen R. Covey
#93. The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.
Julie Bishop
#94. Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
Bo Bennett
#95. Our prayer is to be like a reflex action to God's prior initiative upon the heart.
Richard J. Foster
#96. Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
George Soros
#97. This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.
Elizabeth Moon
#98. The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.
Paul Ryan
#99. Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was, after all, a faith based initiative.
Wendy Kaminer
#100. State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.
Benito Mussolini
