#initiative

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#cabinet #committee #created #did #environment

We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings. ↗

— John W. Snow

#also #associated #domestic #generate #initiative

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#initiative #only #player #right

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#courage #determination #initiative #age

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#leadership #leadership

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#initiative #self-education #education

When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling. ↗

— John Taylor Gatto

#education-system #initiative #self-education #education

I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers. ↗

— Jay Alan Sekulow

#broad-based #constitutional #context #court #determine

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again! ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#determination #initiative #self-improvement #love

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#initiative #motivation #motivational