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“Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.”
― Seth Godin, Poke the Box

“And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings

“If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want.”
― Ashok Kallarakkal

“Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end.”
― Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

“Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.”
― Robert Frost

“You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves and of the world.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

“Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.”
― Orrin Woodward

“Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy. Joy comes from surprise and connection and humanity and transparency and new...If you fear special requests, if you staff with cogs, if you have to put it all in a manual, then the chances of amazing someone are really quite low. These organizations have people who will try to patch problems over after the fact, instead of motivated people eager to delight on the spot.
The alternative, it seems, is to organize for joy. These are the companies that give their people the freedom (and the expectation) that they will create, connect and surprise. These are the organizations that embrace someone who make a difference, as opposed to searching the employee handbook for a rule that was violated.”
― Seth Godin, Poke the Box

“Me, sweep him off his feet? I know. The laws of the jungle and romance novels would have it the other way around, but I’m not going to wait one more second for that.”
― Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets

“The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.”
― Carl Safina, The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

“My dilemma is that of the civil servant. If a civil servant takes an initiative and things go right with it, he cannot, in the nature of his employment, look for much in the way of reward; whereas if his initiative goes wrong, he can expect all kinds of trouble, everything from reprimand to blocked promotion, and a permanent black mark against his name in the files. It is accepted, therefore, that the way to advance in the civil service, or in any field where civil service conditions prevail, is never take an initiative and never to support anyone else's. It is inevitable that this should be so.”
― Robert Aickman, The Unsettled Dust

“We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.”
― Seth Godin, Poke the Box

“The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.”
― Ortega y Gasset José

“The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

“God must be totally amazed by men’s initiatives, creating too many jobs out of a given hole.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“The most difficult thing about writing; is writing the first line.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world will be stuck in an eternal stalemate: nobody moves and nobody wins.”
― Laura L.

“Your dreams can change the environment which was not conducive for it at first! However it is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Well, Jack, we have taken the Macedonian, and your share of the prize, if we get her in safely, may be two hundred dollars; what will you do with it?â€� Stephen Decatur, commanding the frigate United States, North Atlantic, near the Azores Islands, 1812.

“One hundred will go to my mother, sir, and the other I shall spend on schooling.â€� Jack Creamer, aged ten.”
― Irvin Anthony

“Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.”
― Jonathan V. Last

“Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“It is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“No matter how ridiculous your dream may sound to others, you owe yourself the responsibility of stepping out to do it.”
― Bidemi Mark-Mordi

“Life will never improve to the point where living your dream becomes conducive, So just get started.”
― Bidemi Mark-Mordi

“The only way I'm going to make any friends is if I take the first step.”
― Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School

“The quality self-confidence is not bad in youth. We rather like to see it, for it indicates usually the possession or the motive power which makes a man aggressive and enterprising. He works more vigorously if he is sure that he is nearer right than other people, and has no misgivings as to his ability to accomplish his ends. The self distrustful, self-critical young man, who is always looking for direction from somebody else is pretty sure to be left behind in the race.”
― The New York Sun

“The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.”
― Edward Rickenbacker

“As a boy, he'd always had some elaborate project that had nothing to do with school. On Summit Avenue, alone in his aerie, he drew the stately homes across the street and numbered the many windows and doors, compiling a detailed log of his neighbors' activities. In sixth grade, simultaneously, he kept a diary concerning the girls he liked and a ledger chronicling every penny he made and spent. These secret fascinations led nowhere in the end, were left mysteriously incomplete like the detective novel he patterned after Sherlock Holmes, to be replaced by his next obsession. At Princeton, when he was supposed to be cramming for exams, he wrote a musical. In the army it was a novel. Nothing had changed. He was still that boy, happiest pursuing some goose chase of his own making, and lost without one.”
― Stewart O'Nan, West of Sunset