Lack of Initiative Quotes

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf

Fear of Failure becomes Fear of Success for those who Never Try Anything New.

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

I saw Sadat as a character out of Aida. He talked a lot but never acted. I didn’t take him seriously.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

I don't plan to go out and do action or not do action.

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

Where are the Black businesses? They're not here. The Koreans are here, the Chinese are here, the Arabs are here, the Indians are here. Everybody that wants to make a dollar is making a dollar on our lack of thought to do something for ourselves that was not present in that older generation that came from the South.

Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

We don’t use phones anymore in this day and age, yet she still phones things in.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and profit

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.