Initiative is The Start of All Good Things. Your ship will never come in if you don’t send any out. Have you ever found yourself dreaming, hoping, and waiting passively for things to change or for your life to get better?

— Susan C. Young

Initiative + Progress = Success.

— Miena Fiagome

In the last 10 years, we have seen a rise in selfishness: selfies, self-absorbed people, superficiality, self-degradation, apathy, and self-destruction. So I challenge all of you to take initiative to change this programming. Instead of celebrating the ego, let's flip the script and celebrate the heart. Let's put the ego and celebrity culture to sleep, and awaken the conscience. This is the battle we must all fight together to win back our humanity. To save our future and our children.

— Suzy Kassem

Introduce Yourself. Being confident and outgoing will empower you to approach new people who might be reluctant to take the first step. It is amazing how many people we come in contact with, yet pass like ships in the night without any engagement or connection.

— Susan C. Young

I spend a great deal of time on airplanes traveling from one speaking engagement to the next. There have been times when I have sat for hours next to strangers with whom I never made eye contact or uttered a word. But then I have also met people with whom I engaged in such delightful conversation that it resulted in new business and referrals. The main difference was whether I took initiative to begin a conversation.

— Susan C. Young

It is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin!

— Israelmore Ayivor

It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.

— Grace Murray Hopper

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It’s not bravery unless you are doing something which causes you to feel afraid. Unless there is some degree of fear or apprehension involved, bravery is not even needed.

— Susan C. Young

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

— George Eliot