Providence moves in direct correlation to steps of initiative and leaps of faith. 1-2-3, 1-2-3. Do your dance, its your move 🙂

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will...

Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.

You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves...

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make...

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin....

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a...

The larger corporations have such significant resources, they take their initiative and move forward without significant needs.

This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

But no one rejected the Russian initiative.