Category Archives: initiative quotes

”Destiny is not a matter of chance,  it is a matter of choice;  it is not a thing to be waited for,  it is a thing to be achieved.”  William Jennings Bryan

“You don’t have to be great to start,  but you have to start to be great.”  Zig Ziglar 

“Anything worth doing is worth doing now!”  Ralph Stayer

“Dream as if you’ll live forever.  Live as if you’ll die today.”  James Dean

“One of the strongest characteristics of genius  is the power of lighting its own fire.” John W. Foster

“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may  Old Time is still a-flying;  And this same flower that smiles today,  Tomorrow will be dying.”  Robert Herrick 

“An idea is worthless unless you use it.”  John Maxwell

“For purposes of action  nothing is more useful  than narrowness of thought  combined with energy of will.”  Henri Frederic Amiel

“Don’t wait for your ship to come in; swim out to it.”  Anonymous