Quotes About Proactivity

The ability to seize initiative is the most essential quality of any truly successful manager.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

If you want things done, you need to be able to find solutions.

You can sit back and point out the problems or you can address them and bring solutions to the table.

One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.

If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you're praying someone else will do for you.

The cat with gloves catches no mice.

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague

Be the CEO of your own life. Raise hell... I went our of my way to take on projects no one wanted and initiated projects no one has thought of doing... I'd make the effort to create the job that I thought would make me happy

I've sat through far too many "crying in the beer" sessions where all the energy for change was dissipated in the intensity of the complaining. Once you see an idea for improvement that makes sense to you, do it.

Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life

And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons.

We cannot afford to have this leadership team be order takers. We pay you to think, not just do!

Remember, unplanned work kills your ability to do planned work, so you must always do whatever it takes to eradicate it. Murphy does exist, so you'll always have unplanned work, but it must be handled efficiently.

When you spend all your time firefighting, there's little time or energy left for planning.

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves, "What will happen if ... ?" or better still, "How can we make it happen?"

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.

I will take the lead in turning risks into opportunities.

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.