Quotes About Proactivity

As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'

You must take control of events before they take control of you...If you don't do what you can for yourself, no one else will.

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

I've always made my opportunities, I've never been one to wait for them and sit around waiting for something to happen. I've always sought them out.

Once for all, break the "Let George Do It" habit. When a task steps up before you — take hold of it and do it Yourself.

Hay dos tipos de hombres que nunca llegan a nada», decía Andrew Carnegie. «Uno es el que no hace lo que se le dice que haga. El otro es el que nunca hace más de lo que se le dice que haga y —añade— aquel que sale adelante hace lo que debe hacer sin que nadie le diga que lo haga, pero no se detiene ahí. Va más allá haciendo bastante más de lo que se espera de él.»

The ability to say 'woe is me' shows an abundance of inactivity." If I have time to think about how crappy things are, then I simply am not in action. I am not doing enough.

Wailing that the sky is falling does nothing to stop it.

My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

You've been busy, he said. Want something done, ask a busy person.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone of something to change your life.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone or something to change your life.

Why is it that no matter how many strong, heroic ezer stories we find in our Bibles...we are never called to this kind of bold proactive living?

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.

During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to it all?" The answer is very simple: it is because I did everything promptly.

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. ... You might not be home.

When I saw something that needed doing, I did it.

I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

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

Seize time by the forelock.

The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.