Quotes About Proactivity

en la duda, madrugarle al otro. Mejor era un por si acaso que un quién lo hubiera pensado.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I would say if you do have ambitions, don't just wait around. Go out and make yourself as well-qualified as possible so you can take that rare opportunity when it comes along.

My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one second. Then I had to take action.

The best way to predict future is to create it. Abraham Lincoln

being positive, thinking positive, staying on top of things.

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.

They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.

The world is divided into three types of people in business: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Years ago a friend and fellow writer, Nick Antosca, once made a remark about it being best not to threaten, but to simply act. An effective way of going about things, I think.

What we guard against around here is people saying, 'Let's think about it.' We make a decision. Then we act on it.

I was not going to kick back and wait for the unknown. I was going to dive in and become a full-time healing junkie.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

If you don't take care of your house, let support beams rot, the roof fall in, and the very foundation crack and crumble, you can't blame some storm that comes along for knocking the whole thing down. You've got to take responsibility for your part in it all.

Remember this: anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

Don't wait for good things to happen. Do whatever you can, wherever, and however. You will be surprised when good things follow.

If you want to get ahead, you have to create your own chances. You have to carve out your own opportunities.

There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.

Question: Is there one takeaway you want readers to carry with them? JK: Yes. In these turbulent times, sufficient leadership, not just from the top couple of people, is very important, far too rare, and it does not have to be that way. It often starts with only one person not looking away or waiting for something to happen, but seizing opportunities to act where others see problems, fault or threat. Why couldn't that one person be you, or anyone reading this interview right now?

True leadership is all about being verbally and attitudinally positive or active, humble, compassionate, passionate, foresighted, pragmatic and proactive simultaneously. Yes! that is it and that is that. ~Emeasoba George

Vision is simply defined as the state of being able to foresee, think and plan one's future with imaginations, wisdom, insights, foresight and proactive approaches or steps. Permit me to tell you this, whoever that has the ability to see, think or plan like that is a visionary person or leader. Anyway, are you a visionary person or not? -Emeasoba George

Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.

As soon as she gets an idea in her head she does it, you know? I just stand back in amazement at her way of making things happen.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.