Best 124 quotes in «initiative quotes» category

Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies, public and private, will not take on the job of changing what is.

Fitness begins with initiative and continues with consistency. The six pack abs is a byproduct of being healthy.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Continue to witness to the Gospel every day and commit yourselves generously in the next missionary initiatives in the Diocese of Rome.

Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.

Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do.

Height gives you the initiative.

Globalization is a bottom-up phenomenon with all actions initiated by milions of individuals, the sum total of which is globalization. No one is in charge, and no one can anticipate what the sum of all the individual initiatives will be before the result manifest. A global economy can only be the result of spontaneous order.

I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.

If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

Initiative is at the heart of manhood

I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.

Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

I know that historically our foundation has had great relations with all the administrations.[Bill] Clinton administration did a lot of outreach. The greatest rise in U.S. foreign aid was under the [George] Bush administration, that's where we got the AIDS initiative, which is called PEPFAR.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

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.

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 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 idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.