Best 124 quotes in «initiative quotes» category

Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.

Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

Initiative is at the heart of manhood

Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.

It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.

In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared.

I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.

It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be loving. That power and initiative comes from him.

I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

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

New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape.

Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

It was very much an Australian/New Zealand initiative to have a nuclear free South Pacific. And the Americans were very apprehensive about this. So, I explained to them that, as far as I was concerned, this didn't involve any diminution in our commitment to the ANZUS relationship. But David Lange took it further and he barred visits of US nuclear warships to New Zealand.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

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.

Of course, we will work towards that end. Of course, we will work to achieve this result. However, you have just mentioned the 1956 agreement, and one may recall that these negotiations were later terminated, in effect, on Japan's initiative.

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.

Positive response from some of our exporters and holders of free funds in response to some of the turnaround initiatives ... in particular the favourable exchange rate policies.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting.

Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.

Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.

Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Take stands, take risks, take responsibility.

[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.

The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.

The 9/11 terrorist attack was a faith-based initiative.

The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive.

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.

The term ‘reconciliation’ describes the atonement as springing from the initiative of God Himself.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

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.

We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course [Barack] Obama, although he had budget constraints, he believed in these things; a lot of new initiatives, including in agriculture.

Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was, after all, a faith based initiative.

Without a Palestinian partner, Israel needs to take the initiative itself.

We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings.

Any goal, no matter what size, can be achieved if it is tackled with courage, initiative, perseverance, and integrity.

Are you a passenger on a ghost ship or are you the pilot?

As you look more broadly at the many countries of Africa where agriculture is difficult and people are hungry and inject both internal and cross-border conflict and corruption into the mix, to me the conclusion is clear: we need major initiatives in agriculture, but they need to be designed around simple, basic technologies and inputs for subsistence farmers, not large-scale farms.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

As our business grows, it becomes increasingly necessary to delegate responsibility and to encourage men and women to exercise their initiative. This requires considerable tolerance. Those men and women, to whom we delegate authority and responsibility, if they are good people, are going to want to do their jobs in their own way. Mistakes will be made. But if a person is essentially right, the mistakes he or she makes are not as serious in the long run as the mistakes management will make if it undertakes to tell those in authority exactly how they must do their jobs. Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.

Commitment to ourselves, our families, and our business is paramount to being successful. Human should be committed to rolling out great products, services and initiatives that impact those personal and professionals encounters which cross our path.

Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.