Quotes about Initiating Change

I figured that the way to get an undertaking like this on the move was to throw some cold beer at it...

Nothing every happens unless you push it. Ed Rasala. 111

If you want to turn your life you're going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing things to happen to you

But only you can act to change the world with your ideas. If

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.

Then you'd best get started." Millie eyed the birds, rubbing her hands together. "All right, ladies, let's boot the men along and get started ourselves." They had their feast, a happy family group, roasted wild pheasant seasoned with tarragon, stuffed with oranges, apples, shallots, and

Your situation will improve right after YOU improve.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

Why should I just sit around hoping it happens when maybe I can do something to make it happen?

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Cowboy-Up is a way of Life. What this country needs are more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.

My roles aren't huge, but it's a start.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

Nothing happens until you decide.

If there's a problem, you fix it. You don't set up fences around it and make rules about how it should be fixed. You fix it.

I want to just DO SOMETHING instead of ask someone else to start a process to investigate the possibility of someday possibly maybe doing something.

If your life is better, it is because you have done something constructive to make it better.

Be a doer, not a wisher, hoper or critic.

We begin by beginning.