Initiative Quotes

"When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it." "If not me, who? If not now, when?" "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." "Things don't correct themselves, you've got to go out there and work hard to correct them" "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." "Don't wait for an opportunity. Create it." "These problems were not created by government action, or government inaction. We created them, and only we can fix them" "I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing." "Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does" "Power is not given to you. You have to take it." "People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." "As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe you don't move" "I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself" "Great people do things before they’re ready" "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." "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." "Very often, the biggest hurdle in reaching a goal is getting started. And the second biggest hurdle is getting started in the right direction." "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." "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."