#initiative

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. ↗

— Tacitus

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You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #motivational #new-thought #positive-thinking

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#initiative #self-education #education

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#education-system #initiative #self-education #education

At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING. ↗

— Frank Warren

#initiative #life

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#initiative #motivation #motivational

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits one-self, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. ↗

— William Hutchison Murray

#commitment #creation #determination #initiative #dreams

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to. ↗

— Banksy

#initiative #oxymoron #paradox #independence

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. ↗

— George Eliot

#initiative #positivity #rose

Don’t simply exist in this world, but grasp life’s potential by the jacket. Dare it to be all it can. Make life historical—a gripping account of accomplishment. Make life a mystery—a challenging, bold adventure. Make life heartfelt—an enduring, poetic romance. Whatever it is you make of your world, live the fairytale. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #drive #eena #hope #initiative