Initiative Quotes

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

Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.

Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.

All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.

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

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

I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.

Initiative is at the heart of manhood

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

Every country has its own diplomacy. Being part of Europe doesn't mean giving up one's independence or no longer being able to take the initiative.

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

I'm asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages.

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state.

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.

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.

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.

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

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

The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

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

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

No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

Kids are the biggest brand ambassadors of Swachh Bharat initiative.

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

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

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

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

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

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

Innovation is an outgrowth of initiative, and initiative - taking positive actions in a belief that your actions can make a difference - is a big part of confidence.

There are ways for what has been going on at that foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, there are ways that that can be exposed and embarrass and humiliate and all that.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.

Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

Seizing the initiative can make all the difference between winning and loosing.

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

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

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must, ' The youth whispers, 'I can.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.