Quotes About Proactivity

It was said by one hon. Gentleman last night that it was of no use crying over spilt milk, and certainly the observation was a just one so far as regarded the milk already spilt. But if by crying one could prevent other milk from being spilt in future, then the crying might be a very useful process.

traders shouldn't stick their heads in the sand and just hope it gets better.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

If you stick your head in the sand and ignore things that you have the power to change, you can't blame anyone when they don't turn out right!

Worrying had always seemed to me like a laughable waste of time and energy; so much simpler to go happily about your business and deal with the problem when it arose, if it did, which it mostly didn't.

Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

Justice is an action, not a reaction.

if we don't act , we're just standing still. and the act of standing still is the same as moving backwards when everyone else is in motion all around us, around the world

Because, if one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them.

not restricting themselves to dealing with present threats but using every means at their disposal to foresee and forestall future problems as well. Seen in advance, trouble is easily dealt with; wait until it's on top of you and your reaction will come too late, the malaise is already irreversible.

The going was rough, and it was time to get going. There was no time like the present, because the early bird catches the worm.

My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.

is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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

If you want to turn your life you're going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing things to happen to you

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

Rather than sitting and worrying, do something, anything. Worrying is a waste of time