Quotes About Proactivity

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and in honors, for but one thing. And that is initiative. What is initiative? I'll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

I can handle big news and little news. And if there is no news, I'll go out and bite a dog.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

I believe you have to make things happen.

Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can't be passive.

We're too complacent. We let things happen to us. And you don't have to let things happen to you. You can affect change.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking. If

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it. They cause the events that others have to react to. They make change.

Once you've engaged with an organization or a relationship or a community, you owe it to your team to start. To initiate. To be the one who makes something happen. To do less is to steal from them.

Initiative = Happiness

alternative to planning on late is to initiate before it's required, to ship before deadline, to put the idea out there before the crisis hits. This act of bravery actually gives you influence, leverage, and control in a way that planning on late never can. Dandelion

The problem is obvious—if you spend all day hitting the ball back, you'll never end up serving.

We can schedule for it. Thursday, April 3rd, 3:05…start something. We can train for it, plan for it, announce it, and even hire for it. If initiating is as essential to the modern organization as it appears, we better be doing all of that and more.

Do unto others before they do it to you.

Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.

The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.