There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
I was able to meet young black people from all over the country who were focused on education and on elevating themselves. I'm endorsing and supporting this initiative because I believe college is a blessing, and for young black people coming out of areas that are struggling. . . for them to see college as their future, that's a blessing.
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
William Wilberforce. . . w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth. . . he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life. . . To forget such men is foolish.
But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks.
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
The term ‘reconciliation’ describes the atonement as springing from the initiative of God Himself.
You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private profit, strengthened of course with the acceptance of those obligations to the public interest which rest upon us all.
What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.
Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.
When you are leading, you have to take initiative.