Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.
Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.
The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.
I got tired of asking people to do stuff and waiting on results, so I just took it into my own hands.
There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.
The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.
When people are motivated by principles larger than themselves, you don't have to beat them over the head to get them to act. You simply empower them, you inform them, you give them tools, and they take it upon themselves to act.
I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.
No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
All the people in the late '80s and early '90s were really hell-bent on doing something for themselves, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. There was a lot of determination, and I was definitely part of that way of thinking.
I always try and decide what I'm interested in, and I just do that.
True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.
