Initiative Quotes

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn" "If you want to be in a community, then make a community" "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." "The dog that trots about finds a bone" "People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." "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." "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." "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" "By the time I was 13, I had my first project" "Power is not given to you. You have to take it." "Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does"