(846 quotes found)
“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.”
William Pollard
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”
William Hutchinson Murray
“The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.”
Harry Browne
“You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.”
Chris Evert
“Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.”
Louis D. Brandeis
“Never relinquish the initiative.”
Charles de Gaulle
“My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.”
Charles Barkley
“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.”
George Bernard Shaw
“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
“New Zealand was colonized initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape”
Robert Muldoon
