Quotes About Proactivity

I do what I can the moment I can.

A man drove himself insane He was driven Insane At least he was driven I don't know about you But it sure seems better Than just sitting around talking about it

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out there and make special things happen, which was a much more sensible plan from a probability point of view.

You can spend your life waiting and watching for perfect moments, but sometimes you have to make one happen.

I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.

You complain because things don't arrange themselves around you like a bouquet of flowers, without your taking the slightest trouble to do anything. But I have never asked as much: I wanted action. You know, when we played adventurer and adventuress: you were the one who had adventures, I was the one who made them happen.

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

I never leave anything until the morning. I put my jumpers, scarves, and shoes out the night before. You never know what is going to happen. You don't want to get stressed.

With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

No one is going to give me opportunities. I've gotta take them.

My parents always used to tell us not to complain about things but do something about them, so 'Can't is not an option' was almost a way of life.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Good managers have a bias for action.

It's the opposite of people who live waiting for life to come to them. Then you're just a victim or you're a lottery winner, so I choose to live life with a plan or a goal. I lay out the steps to get there and then assess them constantly. But usually I only get a clear snapshot of my plan when I look in the rearview mirror and see what I did." - Beachbody CEO Carl Daikeler Excerpt From: Tony Horton. "The Big Picture: 11 Laws That Will Change Your Life.

I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.

you can't depend on people who just let things happen

Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.

Don't take the attitude of waiting for people to be nice to you - be nice to them. Don't sit in front of a cold stove waiting for the heat. Put in the fuel. Act first.

You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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. -George Bernard Shaw