Self-Initiated Quotes

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

Some situations you cause yourself.

Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

If I was always doing my own thing, I would be bored out of my mind.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

Change is debilitating when it is done to us. Change is exhilarating when it is done by us.