Quotes about Initiating Change

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

Good idea. I'll do it.

If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon.

to be proactive you must learn to act and not be acted upon.

Action is the answer.

give you in the first place.

There are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go make it happen.

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

Nothing is more exhausting than the task that's never started, and strangely, starting is often far harder than continuing.

Machiavelli knew enough to say the following: "There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

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.

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Sometimes men tend to get a little shy, so if the woman wants to make the first move, go ahead!

Be a creator, not just sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to call you into the game or call our number.

Don't prepare. Begin. Remember, our enemy is not lack of preparation; it's not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account.

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

We became complacent; we became the managers of the status quo, not the change makers, and we've got to renew the center.

If you are waiting for this thing that might happen tomorrow, it probably will never happen. You need to activate it now! No one else is going to do it for you, and ten years are going to go by before you even know it.

One out of four hundred and thirty-five members of the House is not going to transform the culture of the institution, but we've got to start somewhere.

I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I'm trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago.

Finally, someone has to make a start. We only said and wrote what many people think. They just don't dare to express it.