There are ways for what has been going on at that foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, there are ways that that can be exposed and embarrass and humiliate and all that.
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.
To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin. . . to set something into motion.
Initiative without action is the same as having the mind to acknowledge a problem, but not having the heart to see it through.
Take stands, take risks, take responsibility.
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.
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.
In a word, what characterizes the spiritist revelation is that while divine in its origin and of the initiative of the Spirits, its elaboration is fruit of man’s work.
And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us.
Let's make a dent in the universe
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.
Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.
I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.
You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.
Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative of the national government or the politicians. They only respond to the power of social movements.
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.
Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.