Quotes About Proactivity

The more you talk about investing problems, the worse you feel. Instead of complaining, it's better to do something.

I don't know anything about leadership," Golda replied, typically eschewing theoretical talk. "I can only tell you that I was going to the theater one evening and got on an elevator. Nobody in the elevator bothered to move. So I pressed the button. That's all I can say about leadership.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

You know, people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

think and talk and act rather than react,

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.

If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

If you don't try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.

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.

Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

First, by accepting that you choose your attitude, you demonstrate a level of personal accountability and proactivity

If I knew I should die tomorrow, I would plant a tree today.

If ya let hornets rest in yer outhouse, it's hard t'get pissed when they buzz down and sting yer ass.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

I'M TIRED OF SWATTING FLIES," President Bush told Condoleezza Rice in the Oval Office that spring after another in a series of briefings about al Qaeda threats. "I want to play offense."13

Don't sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Have a plan and take the needed steps to create what you want."

I can't keep sitting on the bench and letting my life go on, smoking a cigar and not doing anything. It's not me. I want to be playing football.