You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
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.
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
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.
If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.
Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
Nobody is too important to lead the initiative you say is important.
If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.
I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.
Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.
Millions of people around the world suffer daily from the harmful health and environmental impacts caused by indoor cooking fires and inefficient cookstoves. Together with the Global Alliance on Clean Cookstoves, we are taking action to address this critical problem and to promote a cleaner, healthier environment. I am pleased to celebrate the launch of this Alliance and proud to say that agencies from across the U. S. Federal Government will continue to play an important role in this initiative.
When we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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.
It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.
God alone can make a man a believer. Our part is to accept or reject his initiative.
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.