Taking The Initiative Quotes

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

Stephen Covey

#2. 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

#3. Some of the more superstitious townsfolk even believed she was a witch. The fact that she had four dead husbands lined up in a neat row at the local Promise Land Cemetery was not an argument in her defense.

K. Martin Beckner

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.

Jill Hennessy

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Everybody can, you know, go online, read about something, and have an opinion about something.

David Harewood

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Philip Yancey

#15. When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.

Cynthia Voigt

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

Muhammad Yunus

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

Bill Bright

#18. Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.

Robert Black

#19. When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects.

Luc Sante

#20. Beauty is a perilous gift ...

Ellis Peters

#21. 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

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

William J.H. Boetcker

#23. Sometimes, the best advisor is one that serves as a sounding board for his commander's thoughts.

B.V. Larson

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

Stephen Covey

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. My life is art. Its how I express God.

Lisa Bonet