Quotes About Proactivity

I finished my dissertation six weeks early. Who does that? As soon as something comes in, I like it to go out.

There are those who make things happen, there are those who watch things happen and there are those who say 'what happened?

I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.

the key was to take the initiative from the first moment, and keep it thereafter. He could be as hollow as a drum, so long as he was as loud.

you'll find plenty to keep you busy, just do whatever you see before you that needs to be done.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!

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

You won't accomplish anything sitting around wishing. You've got to do things.

If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.

During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.

I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw said: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw said: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." Well,

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready to take advantage of them.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."

Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it.