Initiative is the ability to assess and initiate things independently.

1. The initiative of a scandal belongs to a husband, the sound design belongs to a wife.
Emil Krotkiy

2. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me
Anonymous

3. As humans, we can identify galaxies light years away, we can study particles smaller than an atom. But we still haven’t unlocked the mystery of the three pounds of matter that sits between our ears
Barack Obama

4. Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces.
Dave Heineman

5. The initiative must come from the left itself as the regional parties cannot accomplish this task.
Abani Roy

6. Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
Wilhelm Steinitz

7. Initiative is key. Anybody who wants to be somebody is going to work as hard as they can to fulfill that dream. Puff Daddy

8. Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.
Suzy Kassem

9. Taking initiative does not mean being pushy, obnoxious, or aggressive. It does mean recognizing our responsibility to make things happen.
Sameer Mathur

10. The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Ernest Newman

11. Never relinquish the initiative.
Charles De Gaulle

12. For the past weeks I’d been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.
Richard Marcinkko

13. The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to “rule over the earth”; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God
Fulton J. Sheen

14. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.
GREG ANDERSON

15. The Mobile Web Initiative is important – information must be made seamlessly available on any device.
Tim Berners-Lee

16. Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that’s going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we have to give each other opportunity. That’s the only way to make it work.
Doug E. Fresh

17. If you don't take a chance you don't stand a chance
Anonymous

18. It doesn’t matter if a million people tell you what you can’t do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that’s all you need
Tyler Perry

19. Take the Initiative and lead the way.. you can make the difference
Anonymous

20. There is one aspect of the change in moral values brought about by the advance of collectivism which at the present time provides special food for thought. It is that the virtues which are held less and less in esteem and which consequently become rarer and precisely those on which the British people justly prided themselves and in which they were generally agreed to excel. The virtues possessed by Anglo-Saxons in a higher degree than most other people, excepting only a few of the smaller nations, like the Swiss and the Dutch, were independence and self-reliance, individual initiative and local responsbility, the successful reliance on voluntary activity, noninterference with one’s neighbor and tolerance of the different and queer, respect for custom and tradition, and a healthy suspicion of power and authority
Anonymous

21. We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
Mitt Romney

22. The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
Stephen Covey

23. Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
Robbert Frost

24. Take responsibility and initiative for yourself. Stop blaming your circumstances on what you are able to change
Anonymous

25. I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
John Frusciante

26. Positive thinking evokes more energy, more initiative, more happiness
Anonymous

27. When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference
Anonymous

28. A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

30. Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.
Orlando Aloysius Battista

31. Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

32. If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place
Anonymous

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

34. Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
Bo Bennett

35. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. Personal initiative is self-starting and proactive, works independently of outside influence or control
Anonymous

37. Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint Eastwood

38. Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end.
Lorii Myers

39. Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't
Anonymous

40. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis D. Brandei

41. Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
Anonymous

42. Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves – and be free.
Cesar Chavez

43. There is a difference between intention and initiative, and nowhere is that difference more stark than in love. We can have the intent to love others, but without initiative, without action, without clear demonstrations of respect and active caring, concern, and compassion for another, intention alone remains useless, soulless. Thinking is not love, giving is.
Brendon Burchard

44. Have a bias toward action – let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
Indira Gandhi

45. Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
Anna Pavlova

46. The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

47. This is a great initiative to help recognize and reward talented short-film makers. We’re very happy to be working with Amazon.com to help identify and support emerging talent.
Robert De Niro

48. We thought we should take the Initiative and lead
Anonymous

49. Success comes from taking the initiative and following up… persisting… eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
Tony Robbins

50. A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
Banksy

51. You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference. Chris Evert

52. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle
Anonymous

53. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln

54. Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor. Diego Della Valle

55. One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.
Donald Johanson

56. A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

57. Genius is initiative on fire.
Holbrook Jackson

58. All glory comes from daring to begin.
Eugene F. Ware

59. Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.
Seth Godin

60. Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Victor Hugo

61. Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
Elbert Hubbard

62. Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
Gale Norton