initiative

Begin to take the initiative when you want to meet someone new. Be the one who steps forward first. Simply say hello and begin a conversation.

Years ago, my childhood friend Steve lost his father. Since Steve had left Tallahassee shortly after high school graduation, we had not seen each other for over a decade. Upon learning of his father__ funeral, I made plans to attend to "be there." After the service, I approached the family__ receiving line. When Steve saw me, he was stunned that I had made the effort to be there for him. We both cried as we hugged and he said, __ can__ tell you what it means to me that you showed up._ Showing up sends a message that you are a devoted friend, a team player, a dedicated parent, an inspiring leader, a loyal mate, and more.

Stop sleeping, Get to work! You will have much time to sleep when you die.

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

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.

He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But all the people he met, and all the people he saw, in the smallest country village, were well dressed, well fed, and contrary to his expectations, industrious. They did not stand about sullenly waiting to be ordered to do things. Just like Anaresti, they were simply busy getting things done. It puzzled him. He had assumed that if you removed a human being's natural incentive to work -- his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy -- and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and careless worker. But no careless workers kept those lovely farmlands, or made the superb cars and comfortable trains. The lure and compulsion of profit was evidently a much more effective replacement of the natural initiative than he had been led to believe.

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

People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.

I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.

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.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

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

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

Don__ simply exist in this world, but grasp life__ potential by the jacket. Dare it to be all it can. Make life historical__ gripping account of accomplishment. Make life a mystery__ challenging, bold adventure. Make life heartfelt__n enduring, poetic romance. Whatever it is you make of your world, live the fairytale.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don__ wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

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.

Despite the many occasions when its characters feel frustrated before the weight of circumstances, and despite blaming their feeling of impotence on daiva, 'fate', moral autonomy shines through in the epic. Because they have some freedom to choose they can be praised when they follow dharma or blamed when they follow adharma. At the moment of making a decision they become conscious of their freedom, and it is this perception of autonomy that gives them the ability to lead authentic moral lives.