Initiative Quotes

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

Life, Love, Success

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
Elbert Hubbard

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Barack Obama

Money, Government, Together

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Government, Successful

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

Time, Government, Death

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Genius is initiative on fire.
Holbrook Jackson

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Victor Hugo

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
Isaac Asimov

Business, Takes, Degree

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
Bo Bennett

Leadership, Leaders, Simply

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

Life, Important, Around

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
Stephen Covey

Business, Problems, Themselves

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
Cesar Chavez

Free, Learn, Themselves

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.
Bill Maher

Religion, Building, Flying

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.
Paul Ryan

Government, Political, Succeed

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Last, Ask, Hold

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Tacitus

Blessing, Few, Crime

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson

Change, Time, Courage

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

Free, Creativity, Moral

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
Charles E. Wilson

Great, Society, Few

Never relinquish the initiative.
Charles de Gaulle

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
Tim Berners-Lee

Important, Made, Available

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
Louis D. Brandeis

Judgement, Substitute

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Al Gore

Service, Congress, United

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
Eddie Murphy

Confidence, Wanted, Lots

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
William J. H. Boetcker

Men, Courage, Character

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

Yourself, Important

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

Life, Lost, Himself

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.
Charlize Theron

Work, Career, Different

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Al Gore

Forward, Moving, Important

I will not start an initiative until I've spent my own money. Because if I spend my own money, people who want to get on board afterwards know that I am serious about it.
will.i.am

Money, Serious, Start

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