Quotes about Initiating Change

You can't hit if you don't swing!

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.

Hoe heerlijk is het, dat niemand een minuut hoeft te wachten met te beginnen de wereld langzaam te doen veranderen''.

First find a path, and a little light to see by. Then push up your sleeves and start helping.

Don't be afraid. Just start the tape.

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

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it. They cause the events that others have to react to. They make change.

Once you've engaged with an organization or a relationship or a community, you owe it to your team to start. To initiate. To be the one who makes something happen. To do less is to steal from them.

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

This Is a Manifesto About Starting Starting a project, making a ruckus, taking what feels like a risk. Not just "I'm starting to think about it," or "We're going to meet on this," or even "I filed a patent application. . . ." No, starting. Going beyond the point of no return. Leaping. Committing. Making something happen.

You've certainly met these people. They're too busy taking notes to get anything done, too busy inventing to actually instigate. To stop this process, one needs to do only two things: Start. And then . . . Ship. Can't

Real change rarely comes from the front of the line. It happens from the middle or even the back. Real change happens when someone who cares steps up and takes what feels like a risk. People follow because they want to, not because you can order them to.

Hoy en día no empezar es muchísimo peor que equivocarse.

Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.

If you want to improve your life and the lives of those around you, you must take action.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

If you wait till you think you are ready, you'll wait all your life.

you know, get going." "Sure.

The only worthwhile idea is the one on which you take action.

Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.