Quotes About Proactivity

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring.

Sometimes it's more important to seize the chance and do what you can even knowing that it won't likely account for everything, that it is to do nothing.

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari

Don't wish , Miss Tick had said. Do things.

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Do unto others before they do unto you.

we should spend much more time and effort helping things go right than dealing with things that are going wrong.

The pyramid suggests that we should spend much more time and effort helping things go right than dealing with things that are going wrong.

If you know what's coming and don't do anything to stop it, you got no right to act all surprised and pissy when the crap hits the fan. Rule #1 in the Universe: the crap always hits the fan. It's the nature of crap. It's a fan magnet.

I don't want any help, she said. I want someone to think ahead the way I have to and to do it without me having to ask.

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Seize the opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.

A good executive, when things aren't going well, gets down and finds out what's going wrong and tries to fix it.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.