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Quotes on Initiative

A Select Collection of Quotes on Initiative

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Thomas Paine
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Lao Tsu
What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.

T. S. Eliot
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

Edgar Cayce
When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are.

Roman saying
While there's life, there's hope!

Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Peter Robert Fleming
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Norman Vincent Peale
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

Barabra Sher
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Henry Ford
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.

Zig Ziglar
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

A. J. Foyt
You get out in front - you stay out in front.

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