"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
Francis Bacon
Initiative Quotes
28 FAMOUS QUOTES · INITIATIVE
Initiative Quotes
Read 28 famous initiative quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
Toni Morrison
"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
Grace Hopper
"I got my start by giving myself a start."
Madam C. J. Walker
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."Dolly Parton
"The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune."
Amelia Earhart
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."Michael Jordan
"Heaven never helps the man who will not act."
Sophocles
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
Jack London
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
Elinor Smith
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
William Butler Yeats
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”George Bernard Shaw
"Control your own destiny or someone else will."
Jack Welch
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
Amelia Earhart
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
Milton Berle
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”Michael Jordan
“It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.”
Grace Hopper
"Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them."
Charles Caleb Colton
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
Toni Morrison
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle
“Circumstances? I make circumstances.”Napoleon Bonaparte
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”George Bernard Shaw
“I got my start by giving myself a start.”
Madam C. J. Walker
“Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”
Madam C. J. Walker
“It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.”
Grace Hopper