Top Initiative Quotes
Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
Cesar Chavez
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
John Grierson
Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.
Hjalmar Branting
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Eddie Rickenbacker
Boris Spassky 
Judd Gregg 
Tim Berners-Lee 
Anna Pavlova 
Mitt Romney 
Louis D. Brandeis 
Elbert Hubbard 
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Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
Cesar Chavez 
87% of people like this quote
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln
65% of people like this quote
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
John Grierson
62% of people like this quote
Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.
Hjalmar Branting
62% of people like this quote
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Eddie Rickenbacker
61% of people like this quote
I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
Eddie Murphy
59% of people like this quote
We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.
Andrzej Wajda
59% of people like this quote
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Tacitus
58% of people like this quote
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