Quotes about Initiating Change

Nothing was to be lost by beginning at the beginning...

Get in first and shape the terms.

The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

You can sit back and point out the problems or you can address them and bring solutions to the table.

Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

We're facing serious issues. We can either complain about it or try to step in and solve it.

It takes two to manage the relationship, but it takes one to begin the change.

If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you're praying someone else will do for you.

Nu sunt pierdute decât acele b?t?lii pe care nu le începi niciodat?.

Don't assume that it's too late to get involved

It must be considered that 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. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the time to be right to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be just right.

getting up and taking action. - Al Batt

It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action. - Al Batt

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague

Be the CEO of your own life. Raise hell... I went our of my way to take on projects no one wanted and initiated projects no one has thought of doing... I'd make the effort to create the job that I thought would make me happy

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look around and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.

Every beginning is hard.

We will not know unless we begin.