Initiative Quotes - Page 2

Genius is initiative on fire.

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

Never relinquish the initiative.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.

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.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

Initiative is the essence of manhood. Noting comes to the man who is passive, except failure.

God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.

When we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

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.

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.

Nobody is too important to lead the initiative you say is important.

I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

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.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

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.