Quotes about Initiating Change

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. That task becomes a nightmare.

Life begins when we decide it's going to begin for us.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

considered by itself, should never be used to promote passivity.

When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act. I am a person of action.

Leading is doing. To lead, I must move forward.

We can't do everything at once, but, by God, we can do something at once!" Changing

If you're always waiting for a producer to hire you... your chances are really, really small. I've been knocking on doors and asking for a job for many years, and my career really changed when I decided to create my own material.

I heard a man say he needed to lose weight before he could start running. Imagine that. Lose the weight so he could initiate the running habit. That's like a writer who waits for inspiration to begin the book, or the manager who waits for a promotion to lead the field, or a startup that waits for full funding before launching a status quo–disrupting product. The flow of life rewards positive action and punishes hesitation.

People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and made things happen.

I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

The start is what stops most people.

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

Things won't start your life for you. I'm learning that. You have have to start your life for yourself.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

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

Life begins when you do.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

This is the start, this is not the end. To that end, where do we start