Initiative Quotes

"When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it." "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." "Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don't just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles" "If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going" "Fortunate are those who take the first steps." "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." "Very often, the biggest hurdle in reaching a goal is getting started. And the second biggest hurdle is getting started in the right direction." "The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope." "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." "Great people do things before they’re ready" "I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself" "If not me, who? If not now, when?" "As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe you don't move" "People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." "Power is not given to you. You have to take it." "Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does" "I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing." "These problems were not created by government action, or government inaction. We created them, and only we can fix them" "Don't wait for an opportunity. Create it."