Quotes About Taking Initiative

#1. The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils.

Eleftherios Venizelos

#2. Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do.

Sheryl Sandberg

#3. 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

#4. they would get praise for taking initiative, for seeing a difficult task through, for struggling and learning something new, for being undaunted by a setback, or for being open to and acting on criticism.

Carol S. Dweck

#5. Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.

Stephen Covey

#6. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Muhammad Yunus

#7. Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Charlotte Bunch

#8. Successful witnessing is taking the initiative to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God.

Bill Bright

#9. I discovered that the best thing for me was to be very busy all the time. I can get a lot done, and I can do those tasks well.

Terry J. Lundgren

#10. A good designer will actually design the company.

Donald A. Norman

#11. It is possible to build a system that could assure you of increase on constant basis

Sunday Adelaja

#12. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

William J.H. Boetcker

#13. Words are spiritual containers,

Kenneth Copeland

#14. The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Stephen Covey

#15. I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian.

Nicolas Cage

#16. Falling in love with humans is like walking into a pantry and realizing you're trapped in it without Whip Cream, and Cherries.

AainaA-Ridtz

#17. Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.

Nita Ambani

#18. Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

Lana Del Rey

#19. It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

Damien Hirst

#20. The Duality of One is the Unity of two.

Joey Lawsin

#21. Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.

Philip Yancey

#22. Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

Seth Godin

#23. The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.

Alistair Begg

#24. So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

Madeleine Albright

#25. random thoughts allow words to play, to the writer it means to twist & turn the words to create a masterpiece that no one else has ever done.

Jeniann Bowers

#26. Followership starts with Jesus, stays with Jesus, goes with Jesus, and ends with Jesus.

Leonard Sweet

#27. I've always had a problem with the things that people would say out of their mouths to other people. I've always had a problem with that, because a lot of people, they don't have enough information to speak to people a certain way or speak about people a certain way.

Ray Lewis

#28. I've got a quick mouth, and I set my boundaries. Nothing ever happened that I couldn't handle. Once when a guy came on stage making rude gestures, I hit him over the head with my guitar.

Suzi Quatro

#29. Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

John Piper

#30. Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

Mitt Romney

#31. When it comes to taking the initiative against drudgery, we have to take the first step as though there were no God. There is no point in waiting for God to help us--He will not. But once we arise, immediately we find He is there.

Oswald Chambers

#32. I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.

Peter Ustinov

#33. Success comes from taking the initiative and following up ... persisting ... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?

Tony Robbins